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• For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to another, and not to himself. Nor does beauty and strength of body, when dwelling in a base and cowardly man, appear comely, but the reverse of comely, making the possessor more conspicuous, and manifesting forth his cowardice.

  Plato

  Plato, Men, Dwelling

  Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.166, Booklassic

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• There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

  Plato

  Desire, Type, Terrible

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• When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Plato, Men

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.185, Penguin

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• Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?

  Plato

  Plato, Men, Courageous

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.268, Xist Publishing

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• He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life.

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  Men, Sick, Firsts

  Plato, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Plato Collection [47 Books]”, p.3399, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?

  Plato

  Children, Passion, Reality

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• Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.

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  Agreement, Symphony, Harmony

  Plato (2015). “Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.905, e-artnow

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• They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

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  Wisdom, Father, Poetry

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• The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien.

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  Dog, Opposites, People

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• Adultery is the injury of nature.

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  Adultery, Injury

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• Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.

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  Democracy, Idlers, Bees

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• The like is not the friend of the like in as far as he is like; still the good may be the friend of the good in as far as he is good.

  Plato

  May, Stills

  Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: Charmides, Lysis, Other Dialogues and the Laws”, p.66, Cosimo, Inc.

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• One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay.

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  Character, Reality, Words Of Wisdom

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• Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.

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  His Love, Lovers, Counterfeit

  Plato (2016). “The Complete Works of Plato (Unabridged): From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.312, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

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  Music, Republic, Art Education

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• The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.

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  Divine Order, Divinity, Philosopher

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• Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?

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  Religion, Atheism, Moral

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• The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

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  Philosophical, Animal, Tree

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• The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'

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  Pain, Anger, Envy

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• I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.

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  Pain, Coins, Virtue

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.

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  Soul, Body, Contemplating

  Phaedo, 66d (translated by H Tredennick).

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• The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

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  Wise, Plato, Men

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• Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.

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  Men, Honor, Desire

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• I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes to ordinary conversation, such as the stuff you talk about financiers and the money market, well, I find it pretty tiresome personally, and I feel sorry that my friends should think they're being very busy when they're really doing absolutely nothing. Of course, I know your idea of me: you think I'm just a poor unfortunate, and I shouldn't wonder if your right. But then I dont THINK that you're unfortunate - I know you are.

  Plato

  Sorry, Philosophy, Thinking

  Plato (2013). “Plato - Dialogues”, p.29, Read Books Ltd

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• May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.

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  May, Ethics, Should

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