Plato Short Quotes

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You cannot conceive the many without the one.

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In human affairs chance is almost everything.

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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

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The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

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We are imprisoned in the body, like an oyster to his shell.

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Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity.

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No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

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The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.

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All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.

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He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.

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I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools.

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Can we deny that a warrior should have a knowledge of arithmetic?

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No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism.

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The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

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Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

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For what should a man live, if not for the pleasures of discourse?

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This universe is called Cosmos, or order, not disorder or misrule.

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I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.

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All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.

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Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake.

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

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The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.

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The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

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The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

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The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful

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I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.

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