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• Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine:
  A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.

  Plato

  Maids, Nine, Muse

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• Man is a biped without feathers.

  Plato

  Men, Feathers

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• SOCRATES: Perhaps we may be wrong; if so, you in your wisdom should convince us that we are mistaken in preferring justice to injustice. THRASYMACHUS: And how am I to convince you, he said, if you are not already convinced by what I have just said; what more can I do for you? Would you have me put the proof bodily into your souls?

  Plato

  Convince Us, Justice, Soul

  Plato (1892). “Republic. Timaeus. Critias”

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• The God of Love lives in a state of need.

  Plato

  Love Life, Needs, Hunger And Thirst

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• The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.

  Plato

  Angel, Wings, Heavy

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• There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.

  Plato

  Sad Love, Lovers, Getting Over You

  Plato (2012). “Symposium and Phaedrus”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• Every man is a poet when he is in love.

  Plato

  Men, Poet, Every Man

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• Science is nothing but perception.

  Plato

  Plato, Philosophical, Science

  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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• Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.

  Plato

  Animal, Men, Two

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• Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

  Plato

  Philosophical, Animal, Men

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• The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of bad men, and, growing like them, to fly from the conversation of the good, and be cut off from them, and cleave to and follow after the company of the bad.

  Plato

  Cutting, Men, Evil

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.98, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.

  Plato

  Plato, Math, Branches

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.413, Xist Publishing

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• To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

  Plato

  Running, Men, Hymns

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• Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.

  Plato

  Philosophical, Unrest, Politics

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• Philosophy begins in wonder.

  Plato

  Education, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Plato, Seth Benardete (1986). “Plato's Theaetetus: Part I of The Being of the Beautiful”, University of Chicago Press

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• Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls.

  Plato

  Twelve, Balls, Looks

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• Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

  Plato

  Death, Plato, Lasts

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• Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself up as honored, not on his own account, but for the sake of his forefathers. Yet hereditary honors are a noble and splendid treasure to descendants.

  Plato

  Men, Thinking, Honor

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• But that we shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know; - that is a theme upon which I am ready to fight, in word and deed, to the utmost of my power.

  Plato

  Fighting, Thinking, Knowing

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting.

  Plato

  Wings, Long, Evil

  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.902, e-artnow

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• When two friends are in the mood to chat, we have to go about it in a gentler and more dialectical way. By 'more dialectical,' I mean not only that we give real responses, but that we base our responses solely on what the interlocutor admits that he himself knows.

  Plato

  Real, Mean, Two Friends

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• There is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would appear so to the majority of those who will give judgment; and not what is really good or beautiful but whatever will appear so; because persuasion comes from that and not from the truth.

  Plato

  Beautiful, Mean, Men

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• But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?

  Plato

  Heaven, Poet

  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.1522, e-artnow

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• The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

  Plato

  Music, Beautiful, Affair

  Plato, Thomas Taylor, Floyer Sydenham (1984). “The Works of Plato”, Facsimiles-Garl

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• If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.

  Plato

  Men, Self, Mind

  Plato, C. D. C. Reeve (2012). “A Plato Reader: Eight Essential Dialogues”, p.231, Hackett Publishing

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