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This was the end, Echekrates, of our friend; a man of whom we may say that of all whom we met at that time he was the wisest and justest and best.
On the death of socrates
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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
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In the early days of his power, he is full of smiles, and he salutes everyone whom he meets.
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No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
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Searching and learning is a process of remembering…and I, believing this to be true, am ready to search with you what virtue is.
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Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.
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Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.
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The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.
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Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike.
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Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward man be at one. May I reckon the wise to be the wealthy, and may I have such a quantity of gold as none but the temperate can carry.
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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
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Socrates:
The disgrace begins when a man writes not well, but badly.
Phaedrus:
Clearly.
Socrates:
And what is well and what is badly—need we ask Lysias, or any other poet or orator, who ever wrote or will write either a political or any other work, in metre or out of metre, poet or prose writer, to teach us this?
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Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them.
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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.
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And this which you deem of no moment is the very highest of all: that is whether you have a right idea of the gods, whereby you may live your life well or ill.
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States will never be happy until
rulers become philosophers or
philosophers become rulers.
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I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.
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If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.
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The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.
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What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.
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May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.
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If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.
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How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, "How does love suit with age, Sophocles - are you still the man you were?" he replied, "Peace, most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master."
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To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.
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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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