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• For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have known how to speak not of one theme only, but of all; and therefore God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us.

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  Art, Holy Prophet, Order

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• Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

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  Truth, Way, Relation

  Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.1640, Delphi Classics

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• If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their beloved, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour; and when fighting at each other's side, although a mere handful, they would overcome the world. For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by all mankind than by his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms? He would be ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this.

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  Army, Fighting, Cities

  Plato (2016). “Symposium”, p.38, Lulu.com

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• He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

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  Men, Knows, Wisest

  Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.109, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

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  Dance, Art, Mean

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• The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that which the enduing self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily.

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  Self, Choices, Soul

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• Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.

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  Evil, Virtue, Harmony

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• No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.

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  Blessing, Men, Evil

  Plato (2002). “Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo”, p.33, Hackett Publishing

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• Love: a grave mental disease.

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  Break Up, Broken Heart, Breakup

  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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• A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods.

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  Believe, Religion, Atheism

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.285, Cosimo, Inc.

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• And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

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  Mean, Knowing, Words Of Wisdom

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• Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.

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  Excellence, Doe, Wealth

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• A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

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  Men, Good Man, Affair

  Plato (2002). “Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo”, p.44, Hackett Publishing

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• Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of money, and money has to be acquired for the same and service of the body.

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  Love, Money, War

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• One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all their splendor many fair fruits of discourse and meditation in a plenteous crop of philosophy.

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  Beautiful, Philosophy, Ocean

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• ... our purpose in founding our state was not to promote the happiness of a single class, but, so far as possible, of the whole community. Our idea was that we were most likely to justice in such a community, and so be able to decide the question we are trying to answer. We are therefore at the moment trying to construct what we think is a happy community by securing the happiness not of a select minority, but of a whole.

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  Thinking, Class, Ideas

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• There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.

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  Philosophy, Matter, Speak

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• The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

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  Plato, Politics, Penalties

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• Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

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  Plato, Philosophy, Becoming

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• Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.

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  Evil, Praying, Lord

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• No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

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  Memories, Plato, Men

  Plato (1866). “The Republic of Plato, tr. with an analysis and notes, by J.L. Davies and D.J. Vaughan”, p.264

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• And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment.

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  Soulmate, Sight, Love And Friendship

  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.909, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

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  Philosophical, Ignorance, Evil

  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.2726, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation.

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  Feelings, Reputation, Action

  Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.80, Cosimo, Inc.

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• God forever geometrizes.

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  Math, Forever

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