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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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If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange.
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Had we never seen the stars, and the sun, and the heaven, none of the words which we have spoken about the universe would ever have been uttered.
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Vain would be the attempt of telling all the figures of them circling as in a dance, and their juxtapositions, and the return of them in their revolutions upon themselves, and their approximations...
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Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink downward day after day, and make their whole life one continued series of errors.
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All soul is immortal. For that which is always in movement is immortal; that which moves something else, and is moved by something else, in ceasing from movement ceases from living. So only that which moves itself, because it does not abandon itself, never stops moving. But it is also source and first principle of movement for the other things which move.
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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...
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Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.
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No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury of a beast acts in that way. But he who desires to inflict rational punishment does not retaliate for a past wrong, for that which is done cannot be undone, but he has regard to the future, and is desirous that the man who is punished, and he who sees him punished, may be deterred from doing wrong again.
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It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty, and for no other reason. Do you accept this kind of causality?
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All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.
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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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