Plato Quotes - Page 29

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• Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

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  Wisdom, Philosophical, Mimicking

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• For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

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  Education, Constitution, Nurture

  Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.11, University Press of America

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• What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Real, Twilight

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• If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one.

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  Wise, Kindness, Men

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• What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual, and that when the naturally better element controls the worse then the man is said to be "master of himself", as a term of praise. But when - as a result of bad upbringing or bad company one s better element is overpowered by the numerical superiority of one s worse impulses, then one is criticized for not being master of oneself and for lack of self control.

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  Character, Mean, Men

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• He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.

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  Darkness, Walks

  Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.324, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The race of the guardians must be kept pure.

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  Race, Guardian, Pure

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• Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

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  Men, Atheism, Divine Power

  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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• When a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.

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  Men, Two, Desire

  Plato, John M. Cooper, D. S. Hutchinson (1997). “Complete Works”, p.475, Hackett Publishing

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• Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.

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  Errors, Matter, Poet

  Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.108, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons hiom.

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  Life, Running, Men

  Plato (2012). “Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole of life.

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  Children, Mind, Essentials

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• Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

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  Children, Philosophical, Men

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.28, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all

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  Physicians, Patient

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• These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.

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  Plato, Democracy, Equal

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• Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

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  Book, Son, Immortal

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• ...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone.

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  Philosophy, Political, Words Of Wisdom

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

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• Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

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  Suffering, Injustice, Censure

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• The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

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  Knowledge, Science, Sake

  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.251

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• The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of indulgence is the shooting of a fresh bolt.

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  Doors, Soul, Lust

  Plato, Richard Dacre Archer-Hind (1973). “The Phaedo of Plato”, Ayer Co Pub

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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 and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.

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  Love Is, Order, Essence

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

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• States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

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  Plato, Pregnancy, Philosophical

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• Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.

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  Philosophy, Philosopher, Affection

  Plato, Henry Cary, Rev. Henry Davis (M.A.), George Burges (1848). “The Works of Plato: The Apology of Socrates, Crito, Phaedo, Gorgias, Protagoras, Phaedrus, Theaetetus, Euthyphron, and Lysis”, p.385

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• The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

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  Plato, Knowledge, Math

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• The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.

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  Truth, Numbers, Quality

  Plato (1956). “The Republic”

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