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• Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.

  Plato

  Beauty, Eye, Men

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.107, Penguin

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• And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who deprives himself by violence of his appointed share of life. Not because the law of the state requires him. Nor yet under the compulsion of some painful and inevitable misfortune which has come upon him. Nor because he has had to suffer from irremediable and intolerable shame, but who from sloth or want of manliness imposes upon himself an unjust penalty.

  Plato

  Suicide, Suicidal, Mean

  Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.1764, Booklassic

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• Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

  Plato

  Plato, War, Cities

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.252, Penguin

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• Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.

  Plato

  Poet, Asks

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• Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

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  Wine, Men, Granted

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• Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.

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  Freedom, Democracy, Glory

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

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  Wise, Perfection, Humanity

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• We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

  Plato

  Oysters, Shells, Body

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Those having torches will pass them on to others.

  Plato

  Torches

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• We are too feeble and sluggish to make our way out to the upper limit of the air. If someone could reach the summit, or put on wings and fly aloft, when he put up his head he would see the world above, just as fishes see our world when they put up their heads out of the sea; and if his nature were able to bear the sight, he would recognize that that is the true heaven.

  Plato

  Our World, Sight, Air

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• I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.

  Plato

  Believe, Higher, Accusers

  Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.126, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I must yield to you, for you are irresistible.

  Plato

  Teaching, Yield, Irresistible

  Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.370, Booklassic

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• Love is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that which he is or has. And love is of the beautiful, and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires the good.

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  Beautiful, Love Is, Men

  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.873, e-artnow

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• If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.

  Plato

  Practice, Notable, Ifs

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• You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.

  Plato

  Mistake, Men, Evil

  Plato, Richard Stanley Bluck (1955). “Phaedo: Translated, with Introd., Notes, and Appendices”

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• And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.

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  Ignorance, Skills, Judging

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• There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

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  Belief, Applause, Multitudes

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.256, Penguin

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• There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

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  Art, Three, Use

  Plato (2012). “Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic”, p.441, Courier Corporation

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• 'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?'
  ' Not in the first generation', he said, 'but you might succeed with the second and later generations.'

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  Believe, Thinking, Words Of Wisdom

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

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• Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.

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  Heart, Reality, Words Of Wisdom

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• The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.

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  Beautiful, Proportion, Courses

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• We must infer that all things are produced more plentifully and easily and of a better quality when one man does one thing which is natural to him and does it at the right time, and leaves other things.

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  Work, Men, Quality

  Plato (1950). “The Republic”, p.41, Lulu.com

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• I have this tattooed on my left side! I love the saying and it's a perfect description of Karma, don't judge/discriminate and don't do to someone what you wouldn't want done to you.

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  Karma, Perfect, Judging

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• I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax... and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget or do not know.

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  Block, Taken, Men

  Plato (1871). “Gorgias. Philebus. Parmenides. Theaetetus. Sophist. Statesman”, p.396

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• As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.

  Plato

  Half, Wells

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.118, Cosimo, Inc.

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