Plato Quotes - Page 9

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• The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

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  Men, Soul, Immortality

  Plato, General Press (2016). “The Republic”, p.506, GENERAL PRESS

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• Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

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  Love Is, Names, Desire

  Plato, C. D. C. Reeve “Plato on Love”, Hackett Publishing

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• The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

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  Men, Political, Good Man

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• I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

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  Ambition, Son, Men

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• Be kind, for everyone is having a hard battle.

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  Battle, Be Kind, Kind

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• The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Mean, Men

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• The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.

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  Math, Form, Pure

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• The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

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  Plato, Philosophical, Opposites

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• To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

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  Suffering, Injustice, Disgraceful

  Plato (2012). “Gorgias and Timaeus”, p.117, Courier Corporation

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• He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

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  Plato, Philosophical, Inspiration

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.126, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

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  God, Blame, Blameless

  Plato (1963). “The Republic”

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• Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds a little afterwards that he is wicked, faithless, and then he meets with another of the same character. When a man experiences this often, and more particularly from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends, at last, having frequently made a slip, he hates the whole world, and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them.

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  Hate, Character, Men

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• The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed.

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  New Year, Happy New Year, Character

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• Music gives a soul to the universe.

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  Music, Wings, Giving

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• A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.

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  Confused, Eye, Men

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• The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.

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  Education, Real, School

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.154

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• If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection

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  Reflection, Impression, Contradictory

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• Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

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  Luxury, Parent, Poverty

  Plato (2012). “The Republic and Other Works”, p.110, Anchor

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• Necessity is literally the mother of invention.

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  Mother, Invention

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  Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

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  Music, Plato, Soul

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• When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when it turns to the twilight world of change and decay, it can only form opinions, its vision is confused and its beliefs shifting, and it seems to lack intelligence.

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  Confused, Twilight, Eye

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• To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.

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  Evil, Justice, Injustice

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• There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

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  Knowledge, Words Of Wisdom, Meat

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.38, Penguin

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• As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.

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  Men, Ideas

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• Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

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  Love, Romantic, Song

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