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• Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.

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  Memories, Reality, Wings

  Plato, Alexander Nehamas, Paul Woodruff (1995). “Phaedrus”, p.37, Hackett Publishing

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• And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth.

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  Love Is, Order, Earth

  Plato (2016). “Symposium”, p.68, Plato

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• Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the state.

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  Believe, Mind, Invention

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• The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of indulgence is the shooting of a fresh bolt.

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  Doors, Soul, Lust

  Plato, Richard Dacre Archer-Hind (1973). “The Phaedo of Plato”, Ayer Co Pub

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• There is no other start to philosophy but wonder.

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  Philosophy, Wonder

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• He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life.

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  Men, Sick, Firsts

  Plato, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Plato Collection [47 Books]”, p.3399, Catholic Way Publishing

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• I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools.

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  Fool, Faults, Given

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.155

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• Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other? If you weigh pleasures against pleasures, you of course take the more and greater; or if you weigh pains against pains, then you choose that course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by the near or the near by the distant; and you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful.

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  Pain, Balance, Action

  Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: Charmides, Lysis, Other Dialogues and the Laws”, p.198, Cosimo, Inc.

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• What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?

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  Taken, Wine, Character

  Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.2694, Delphi Classics

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• When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.

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  Plato, Leader, Citizens

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• No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

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  Men, May, Happens

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.

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  Men, Law, Sound

  Epistulae, 8. 354e (translated by R G Bury,1925).

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• Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.

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  Errors, Matter, Poet

  Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.108, Cosimo, Inc.

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• So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.

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  Strong, Noble, Clarity

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• Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

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  Suffering, Injustice, Reproach

  Plato, G. M. A. Grube (1992). “Republic (Grube Edition)”, p.20, Hackett Publishing

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• The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Mean

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• It is proper for every one to consider, in the case of all men, that he who has not been a servant cannot become a praiseworthy master; and it is meet that we should plume ourselves rather on acting the part of a servant properly than that of the master, first, towards the laws, (for in this way we are servants of the gods), and next, towards our elders.

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  Men, Law, Acting

  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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• I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

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  Plato, Math, Science

  Plato (2016). “The Complete Works of Plato (Unabridged): 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.1375, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

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  Wisdom, Philosophical, Mimicking

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• Only the dead will know the end of the war.

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  Military, War, Army

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• Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness.

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  Rust, Brightness, Diligence

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• Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors

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  Refuse, Inferiors

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• But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than any other part of him, must have thoughts immortal and divine. If he attain truth, and in so far as human nature is capable of sharing in immortality, he must altogether be immortal.

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  Science, Religion, Human Nature

  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.1959, e-artnow

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• The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.

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  Truth, Numbers, Quality

  Plato (1956). “The Republic”

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• The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

  Plato (1925). “Plato”, Loeb Classical Library

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