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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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All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.
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They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.
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The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.
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There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.
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No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism.
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For this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.
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When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.
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He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life.
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Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.
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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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That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with the help of sensation and without reason, is always in a process of becoming and perishing and never really is.
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Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.
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When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.
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As being is to becoming, so is pure intellect to opinion. And as intellect is to opinion, so is science to belief.
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Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?
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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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Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.
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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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People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.
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If the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul.
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The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.
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Time and the heavens came into being at the same instant, in order that, if they were ever to dissolve, they might be dissolved together. Such was the mind and thought of God in the creation of time.
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For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.
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As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.
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Born:
427 BC
Died:
347 BC
(aged 80)
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Plato was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
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Republic
Symposium
Allegory of the Cave
Apology
Phaedo
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