Plato was a philosopher in classical Greece and the founder of the academy in Athens, the first institution for higher learning in the western world. He is widely considered the most pivotal figure in the development of philosophy, especially the western tradition. Unlike nearly all of his philosophical contemporaries, Plato’s entire oeuvre is believed to have survived intact for over 2,400 years. Due to lack of surviving accounts, little is known about Plato’s early life and education
Top 100 Quotes Of Plato.
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Apply yourself both now and in the next life. without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good. You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
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And will life be worth having, if that higher part of man be destroyed, which is improved by justice and depraved by injustice?
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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
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Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.
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The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
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You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument.
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Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
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Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
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Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle.
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He whom love touches not walks in darkness
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Self conquest is the greatest of victories.
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The only thing he ought to consider, if he does anything, is whether he does right or wrong, whether it is what a good man does or a bad man.
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If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.
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Love is a great spirit. Everything spiritual is in between god and mortal.
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
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A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
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Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. But to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
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It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act ‘rightly’ because we are ‘excellent’, in fact we achieve ‘excellence’ by acting ‘rightly.
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It is impossible to improve the world if first the man does not improve.
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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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To the degree that I cease to pursue my deepest passions, I will gradually be controlled by my deepest fears.
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He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act.
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Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death
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Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.
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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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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.
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Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.
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They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
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He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
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Courage is a kind of salvation.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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Time is the moving image of eternity.
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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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Those who don’t know must learn from those who do.
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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
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The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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Life must be lived as play.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one.
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No thing more excellent nor more valuable than wine was ever granted mankind by God.
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The comprehensive mind is always dialectical.
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Was not this … what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom — to know what is known and what is unknown to us?
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This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
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The evil never attains to any real friendship, either with good or evil.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind.
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
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Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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Human nature was originally one and we were a whole, and the pursuit of the whole is called love.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
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It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.
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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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There is no such thing as a lover’s oath.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
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because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible…
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The man who has no self-respect, on the contrary, will imitate anybody and anything; sounds of nature and cries of animals alike; his whole performance will be imitation of gesture and voice.
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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Those who intend on becoming great should love neither them-selves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
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Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and on earth; and he who would be blessed and happy should be from the first a partaker of truth, for then he can be trusted.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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It is only the dead who have seen the end of war.
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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
