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• Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.

  Plato

  Education, School, Roots

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• For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.

  Plato

  Spring, Ignorance, Men

  Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.231, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

  Plato

  Mouths, Common, Life Is

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• A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.

  Plato

  Confused, Eye, Men

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• There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.

  Plato

  Evil, Rewards

  Plato (2012). “The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light.

  Plato

  Eye, Dark, Men

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.333, Penguin

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• It would be better for me ... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.

  Plato

  Men, Would Be, Harmony

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• Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.

  Plato

  Math, Numbers, Degrees

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• To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

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  Philosophical, Suffering, Haste

  Plato (1871). “Gorgias. Philebus. Parmenides. Theaetetus. Sophist. Statesman”, p.547

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• Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.

  Plato

  Confused, Inspiration, Mean

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• Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

  Plato

  Love Is, Desire, World

  Plato, Alexander Nehamas, Paul Woodruff (1995). “Phaedrus”, p.25, Hackett Publishing

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• By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.

  Plato

  Mean, Men, Names

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• There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

  Plato

  Plato, Philosophical

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• Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.

  Plato

  Wings, Giving, Imagination

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• There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

  Plato

  Philosophical, Good Things, Harm

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.118, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'

  Plato

  Pain, Anger, Envy

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• Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world

  Plato

  Mother, Giving, Different

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• I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.

  Plato

  Pain, Coins, Virtue

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods.

  Plato

  Psychology, Wish, Firsts

  Plato (2012). “The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning the Universe would ever have been given if men had not seen the stars or the sun or the heavens. But as it is, the vision of day and night and of months and circling years has created the art of number and has given us not only the notion of Time but also means of research into the nature of the Universe. From these we have procured Philosophy in all its range, than which no greater boon ever has come or will come, by divine bestowal, unto the race of mortals.

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  Art, Stars, Philosophy

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• He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity.

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  Adversity, Want, Helping

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• Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love - all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce.

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  Powerful, Philosophy, Gay

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• As the government is, such will be the man.

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  Men, Government, He Man

  Plato (2015). “The Republic”, p.303, First Avenue Editions

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• A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.

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  Kings, Would Be, Philosopher

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• We must now examine whether just people also live better and are happier than unjust ones. I think it's clear already that this is so, but we must look into it further, since the argument concerns no ordinary topic, but the way we ought to live.

  Plato

  Thinking, People, Looks

  Republic, bk.1, 352d (translated by GM AGrube, revised by C D C Reeve).

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