Plato Quotes

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  If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

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  Government, Political, Politics

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• Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

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  Reality, Mind

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• No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

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  Plato, Hero, Speak

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• A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

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  Wise, Plato, Men

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• The right question is usually more important than the right answer.

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  Important, Answers, Right Answers

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• Be kind. Every person you meet
  is fighting a difficult battle.

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  Fighting, Battle, Be Kind

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• The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.

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  Practice, Plant

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• Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.

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  Children, Fire, Light

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• The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

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  Plato, Work, Acceptance

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• Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

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  Children, Different, Way

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• Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.

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  Philosophical, Doe, Tao

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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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  Wise, Wisdom, Witty

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• Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!

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  Advice, Progress, Matter

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• Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.

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  Patience, Tasks, Wells

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• When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.

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  Grateful, Great Things, Feels

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• Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Stars, Caves

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• We become what we contemplate.

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  Contemplating

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• Love is a serious mental disease.

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  Love, Plato, Romance

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• Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.

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  Spring, Helping Others, Helping

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• Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

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  Desire, Poverty, Wealth

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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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  Im Sorry, Apology, Men

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, Xist Publishing

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• There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.

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  Integrity, Men, Hearing

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Thinking is the soul talking to itself.

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  Wisdom, Thinking, Talking

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• Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses.

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  Lying, Thinking, Shadow

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  Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

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  Plato, Desire, Three

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