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• According to Diotima, Love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people and the objects of their desire. Love is neither wise nor beautiful, but is rather the desire for wisdom and beauty.

  Plato

  Beautiful, Wise, Love Is

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• People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.

  Plato

  War, Fighting, People

  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.121, e-artnow

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• I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.

  Plato

  Art, Plato, Numbers

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• And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

  Plato

  Words Of Wisdom, Use, Philosopher

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• It is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

  Plato

  People, Priorities, Care

  Plato (2010). “The Last Days of Socrates”, p.27, Penguin UK

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• All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

  Plato

  Truth, Thinking, Asks

  Plato, Xenophon, Tom Griffith (2009). “On Socrates”, p.317, Collector's Library

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• 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.

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  Government, Lust, Lovers

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• [Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this leads to a lack of energy in the pursuit of it, and it is difficult. In the second place, students cannot learn it unless they have a teacher. But then a teacher can hardly be found.

  Plato

  Teacher, Learning, Science

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• Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.

  Plato

  Love You, Men, And Love

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• He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's "uses base" for the sake of money; but this is not honourable.

  Plato

  Giving, Use, Done

  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.903, e-artnow

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• Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

  Plato

  Doe, Casting, Deceiving

  Plato, John M. Cooper, D. S. Hutchinson (1997). “Complete Works”, p.1049, Hackett Publishing

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• The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.

  Plato

  Men, Justice, Harmony

  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.906, e-artnow

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• Is virtue something that can be taught?

  Plato

  Taught, Virtue

  Meno, 70a (translated byWK C Guthrie).

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• Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this is true, it would be absurd to be eager for nothing but this all their lives, and then to be troubled when that came for which they had all along been eagerly practicing.

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  Philosophy, People, Dying

  Plato (1913). “Plato”

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• Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government, nor yet can those who spend their lives as closet philosophers; because the former have no high purpose to guide their actions, while the latter keep aloof from public life.

  Plato

  Men, Purpose, Upright Man

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• Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.

  Plato

  Doors, Geometry, Destitute

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• Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all these were in a state devoid of reason or measure, but when the work of setting in order this Universe was being undertaken, fire and water and earth and air, although possessing some traces of their known nature, were yet disposed as everything is likely to be in the absence of God; and inasmuch as this was then their natural condition, God began by first marking them out into shapes by means of forms and numbers.

  Plato

  Truth, Mean, Science

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• Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and that only; and when inspired, one of them will make dithyrambs, another hymns of praise, another choral strains, another epic or iambic verses- and he who is good at one is not good any other kind of verse: for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine.

  Plato

  Art, Men, Epic

  Plato (2017). “Plato: The Complete Works including 31 Books (illustrated)”, p.433, Plato

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• Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.

  Plato

  Death, Men, Excellence

  Phaedo 118a

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• As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.

  Plato

  Inquiry, May, Lovers

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• The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of words and deeds arranged in the Dorian mode. Such a one makes me joyous with the sound of his voice, so eager am I in drinking in his words.

  Plato

  Art, Drinking, Voice

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• From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.

  Plato

  Children, Parenting, Beast

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• And the first step, as you know, is always what matters most, particularly when we are dealing with those who are young and tender. That is the time when they are taking shape and when any impression we choose to make leaves a permanent mark.

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  What Matters, Firsts, Steps

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• If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.

  Plato

  Plato, Believe, Ties

  Plato, John Llewelyn DAVIES (1852). “The Republic of Plato, Translated Into English, with an Introduction, Analysis, and Notes. By J. Ll. Davies and D. J. Vaughan”, p.289

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• If in a discussion of many matters ... we are not able to give perfectly exact and self-consistent accounts, do not be surprised: rather we would be content if we provide accounts that are second to none in probability.

  Plato

  Science, Self, Giving

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