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• Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

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  Knowledge, People, Pleasure

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.390, Xist Publishing

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• It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty, and for no other reason. Do you accept this kind of causality?

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Causality

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• Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?

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  Greed, Democracy, Excess

  Plato (1963). “The Republic”

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• Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.

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  Inspirational, Men, Evil

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• And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.

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  Plato, Justice, Lasts

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

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• When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but the presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good; for that which was once both good and evil has now become evil only, and the good has no friendship with evil.

  Plato

  Evil, Desire, Good And Evil

  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.307, e-artnow

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• Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no desire for that of which he feels no want.

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  Wise, Ignorance, Evil

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.102, Penguin

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• For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.

  Plato

  Spring, Ignorance, Men

  Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.231, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.

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  Love, Men, Doe

  Plato (2007). “The Republic”, p.292, Penguin UK

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• Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

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  Philosophy, Men, Practice

  Plato (2002). “Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo”, p.104, Hackett Publishing

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• Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.

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  Inspirational, Loss, Mind

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• Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have no part in him, and precious to those who have the better part in him.

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  Happiness, Wise, Love Is

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.513

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• In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.

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  Education, Ideas, Effort

  Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.19, University Press of America

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• The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has in fact been followed throughout, the principle of one man one job, of minding one s own business , in the sense of doing the job for which one is naturally fitted and not interfering with other people.

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  Jobs, Men, Discipline

  Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

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• One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all their splendor many fair fruits of discourse and meditation in a plenteous crop of philosophy.

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  Beautiful, Philosophy, Ocean

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• Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been.

  Plato

  Plato, Natural Talent, Training

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• The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.

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  Athlete, Savages, Too Much

  Plato, Justin Kaplan (1951). “Dialogues of Plato”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed.

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  Care, Ridiculous, Guardian

  Plato (2012). “The Republic and Other Works”, p.92, Anchor

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• The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.

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  Love, Men, Passionate

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• What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.

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  Inspirational, Party, Mean

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• You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.

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  Reality, Mind, Vision

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• Man's greatest victory is over oneself.

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  Men, Greatest Victory, Victory

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• Putting the shoe on the wrong foot.

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  Errors, Shoes, Feet

  Plato (1871). “Gorgias. Philebus. Parmenides. Theaetetus. Sophist. Statesman”, p.328

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• Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.

  Plato

  Sparks

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• I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.

  Plato

  Death, Men, Hours

  Plato, M. G. Epictetus (2010). “The Apology, Phaedo and Crito by Plato; The Golden Sayings by Epictetus; The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

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