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• Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.

  Plato

  Plato, Believe, Law

  Plato, Harold North Fowler, Walter Rangeley Maitland Lamb, Robert Gregg Bury (1953). “Plato”

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• In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.

  Plato

  Mind, Speech, Matter

  Plato (2005). “Essential Dialogues of Plato”, Barnes & Noble

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• Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.

  Plato

  Learning, Thinking, Mind

  Plato (2013). “Plato's Theory of Knowledge: The Theaetetus and the Sophist”, p.318, Courier Corporation

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• Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil.

  Plato

  Plato, Evil, Our Words

  Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.974, Delphi Classics

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• I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools.

  Plato

  Fool, Faults, Given

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.155

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• Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

  Plato

  Family, Children, Plato

  Plato, Charles Henry Augustus Bulkley (1876). “Plato's Best Thoughts: Compiled from Prof. Jowett's Translation of the Dialogues of Plato”, p.62

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• Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

  Plato

  Soul, Geometry, Draws

  Plato (2001). “Plato's Republic: The Theatre of the Mind”, p.273, Agora Publications, Inc.

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• As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

  Plato

  May, Inquiry, Beloved

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

  Plato

  Plato, Honor, Noble

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• Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

  Plato

  Music, Education, Plato

  Plato, John Llewelyn DAVIES, David James VAUGHAN (1866). “The Republic of Plato, translated into English, with an introduction, analysis, and notes. By J. Ll. Davies and D. J. Vaughan”, p.64

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• When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.

  Plato

  Plato, Leader, Citizens

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• For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them

  Plato

  Men, Giving, Honor

  Plato, Francis Macdonald Cornford, Alfred Edward Taylor (1985). “The banquet (also known as The symposium)”

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• But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.

  Plato

  Sports, Children, Self

  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.2702, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• The beginning is the chiefest part of any work.

  Plato

  Plato (1873). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.200

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• The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful

  Plato

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

  Plato (1925). “Plato”, Loeb Classical Library

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• Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.

  Plato

  Government, Truth Is, States

  Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.21, University Press of America

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• He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.

  Plato

  Men, Errors, Views

  Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.1051, Delphi Classics

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• He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a marvelous beauty, the source of all our efforts

  Plato

  Order, Effort, Arriving

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• And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth.

  Plato

  Love Is, Order, Earth

  Plato (2016). “Symposium”, p.68, Plato

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• Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

  Plato

  Plato, Math, Kind

  Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.25, University Press of America

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• Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness.

  Plato

  Rust, Brightness, Diligence

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• We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men with the best of our women as often as possible, and the inferior men with the inferior women as seldom as possible, and keep only the offspring of the best.

  Plato

  Real, Men, Political

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

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• There is no other start to philosophy but wonder.

  Plato

  Philosophy, Wonder

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• Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

  Plato

  Leadership, Sports, Use

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• What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?

  Plato

  Taken, Wine, Character

  Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.2694, Delphi Classics

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