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

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  Plato, Work, Acceptance

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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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• 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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• Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

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  Truth, Honesty, Plato

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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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• The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

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  Plato, Freedom, Men

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• He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.

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  Athlete, Men, Savages

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• Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.

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  Ignorance, Roots, Causes

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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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• The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.

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  Fear, Self, Deception

  Plato, Harold North Fowler (1926). “Plato: with an English translation”

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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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• We become what we contemplate.

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  Contemplating

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• To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.

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  Important, Quests, Courageous

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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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