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• Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

  Plato

  Inspiration, Understanding, Talent

  Plato (2002). “Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo”, p.27, Hackett Publishing

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• Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils - no, nor the human race, as I believe - and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.

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  Kings, Plato, Philosophy

  Plato (2015). “The Republic”, p.206, First Avenue Editions

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• ...that in our state one man was to do one job, and the job he was naturally most suited for .. And further, we have often heard and often said that justice consists of minding your own business and not interfering with other people.

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  Jobs, Men, People

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• It is beautiful to wish to add another's light to your own.

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  Beautiful, Light, Wish

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• Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.

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  Plato, Ignorant, Mathematics

  c.380 BC Inscription over the door of theAcademy at Athens.

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• Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

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  Work, Sleep, Soul

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.321

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• Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

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• Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.

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  Soul, Principles, Way

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• Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.

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  Philosophical, Destiny, Men

  Plato (1872). “Laws. Appendix: Lesser Hippias. First Alcibiades. Menexenus. Index of persons and places”, p.236

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• He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

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  Beautiful, Writing, Ink

  Plato, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Plato Collection [47 Books]”, p.35, Catholic Way Publishing

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• The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.

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  Death, Real, Knowing

  Plato (2012). “The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end.

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  Encouraging, Running, Perseverance

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• The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

  Plato

  Men, Tolerable

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• Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake.

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  Soul, Doe, Sake

  Republic, bk.6, 505e (translated by GM AGrube, revised by C D C Reeve).

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• What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?

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  Men, Vanity, What If

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• For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.

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  Love, Children, Plato

  Plato (2005). “The Republic”, p.20, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.

  Plato

  Tasks, Too Much, Rooms

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• The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

  Plato

  Plato, Thinking, Cities

  Plato, Harold North Fowler, Walter Rangeley Maitland Lamb, Robert Gregg Bury (1953). “Plato”

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• [The Cretans have] more wit than words.

  Plato

  Character, Wit

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• Do thine own work, and know thyself.

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  Know Thyself, Knows, Thyself

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• ... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.

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  Memories, Character, Discovery

  Plato, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Plato Collection [47 Books]”, p.545, Catholic Way Publishing

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• If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.

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  Art, Science, Would Be

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• For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out of glens and gardens of the Muses, and they bring them as bees do honey, flying like the bees? And what they say is true, for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him. So long as he has this in his possession, no man is able to make poetry or to chant in prophecy.

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  Inspirational, Running, Men

  Plato (1963). “The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters”, Bollingen

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• There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.

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  Plato, People, Atheism

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• Putting the shoe on the wrong foot.

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  Errors, Shoes, Feet

  Plato (1871). “Gorgias. Philebus. Parmenides. Theaetetus. Sophist. Statesman”, p.328

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