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• Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.

  Plato

  Children, Men, Drunk

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• We must infer that all things are produced more plentifully and easily and of a better quality when one man does one thing which is natural to him and does it at the right time, and leaves other things.

  Plato

  Work, Men, Quality

  Plato (1950). “The Republic”, p.41, Lulu.com

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• May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.

  Plato

  May, Ethics, Should

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• Art has no end but its own perfection.

  Plato

  Art, Perfection, Ends

  Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.6231, Delphi Classics

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• ...the Gods too love a joke.

  Plato

  Jokes

  Plato, Aeterna Press (2015). “Cratylus”, p.100, Aeterna Press

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• It is impossible to conceive of many without one.

  Plato

  Impossible

  Plato (1926). “Cratylus: Parmenides ; Greater Hippias ; Lesser Hippias”, Loeb Classical Library

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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.

  Plato

  Mistake, Health, Two

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• To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.

  Plato

  Thinking, Deception, Noble

  Plato (2015). “Theaetetus: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.134, 谷月社

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• Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness.

  Plato

  Love, Freedom, Inspire

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• Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.

  Plato

  Plato, Swimming, Feelings

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• What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.

  Plato

  Truth, Essence, Generations

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• So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

  Plato

  Government, Lust, Lovers

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• May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?

  Plato

  Justice, May, Hearing

  Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.439, Cosimo, Inc.

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• They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

  Plato

  Plato, Philosophical, Exercise

  Republic III.405.D

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• All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

  Plato

  Plato, Men, Deceived Us

  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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• Those having torches will pass them on to others.

  Plato

  Torches

  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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• Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

  Plato

  Difficult, Geometry, Prove

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• As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.

  Plato

  Half, Wells

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

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• Those who have knowledge are more confident than those who have no knowledge, and they are more confident after they have learned than before.

  Plato

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.67, Penguin

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• Love is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that which he is or has. And love is of the beautiful, and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires the good.

  Plato

  Beautiful, Love Is, Men

  Plato (2015). “Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.873, e-artnow

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• Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political power and philosophy entirely coincide, while the many natures who at present pursue either one exclusively are forcibly prevented from doing so, cities will have no rest from evils,... nor, I think, will the human race.

  Plato

  Kings, Philosophy, Men

  Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.5914, Catholic Way Publishing

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• In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.

  Plato

  Mind, Speech, Matter

  Plato (2005). “Essential Dialogues of Plato”, Barnes & Noble

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• Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

  Plato

  Love Is, Names, Desire

  Plato, C. D. C. Reeve “Plato on Love”, Hackett Publishing

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• As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

  Plato

  May, Inquiry, Beloved

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.

  Plato

  Practice, Notable, Ifs

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