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• Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.

  Plato

  Moving, Men, Together

  Plato (1851). “The Works of Plato: Philebus, Charmides, Laches, Menexenus, Hippias major, Hippias minor, Ion, First Alcibiades, Second Alcibiades, Theages, The rivals, Hipparchus. Minos, Clitopho, The epistles”, p.295

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• Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

  Plato

  Truth, Men, Truth Is

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.249

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• The Graces sought some holy ground,
  Whose sight should ever please;
  And in their search the soul they found
  Of Aristophanes.

  Plato

  Holy Ground, Sight, Grace

  Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1972). “The Republic”

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• Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.

  Plato

  Men, Soul, Next

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.97, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.

  Plato

  Solitude, Haughtiness, Roof

  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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• As a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it issued, so the stream of beauty passes back into its possessor through his eyes, which is its natural route to the soul; arriving there and setting him all aflutter, it waters the passages of the feathers and causes the wings to grow, and fills the soul of the loved one in his turn with love.

  Plato

  Eye, Wind, Wings

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• Each living creature is said to be alive and to be the same individual - as for example someone is said to be the same person from when he is a child until he comes to be an old man. And yet, if he's called the same, that's despite the fact that he's never made up from the same things, but is always being renewed, and losing what he had before, whether it's hair, or flesh, or bones, or blood, in fact the whole body.

  Plato

  Children, Men, Hair

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• By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.

  Plato

  Golden, Sun, Influence

  Plato, George Burges (1848). “The Works of Plato: The Apology of Socrates, Crito, Phaedo, Gorgias, Protagoras, Phaedrus, Theaetetus, Euthyphron, and Lysis”, p.383

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• That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in the study of philosophy appear ridiculous when they enter the courts of law as speakers. Those who have knocked about in courts and the like from their youth up seem to me, when compared with those who have been brought up in philosophy and similar pursuits, to be as slaves in breeding compared with freemen.

  Plato

  Plato, Philosophy, Thinking

  Plato (1921). “Theaetetus, Sophist”

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• The good are like one another, and friends to one another; and ... the bad, as is often said of them, are never at unity with one another or with themselves, but are passionate and restless: and that which is at variance and enmity with itself is not likely to be in union or harmony with any other thing.

  Plato

  Unity, Passionate, Enmity

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.56

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• I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word.

  Plato

  Lines, States, Built

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• For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.

  Plato

  Men, Evil, Religion

  Plato (1934). “The Laws of Plato”

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• Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.

  Plato

  Soldier, Important, Done

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.256, Xist Publishing

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• He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit.

  Plato

  Ignorant, Wit

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• Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

  Plato

  Pain, Soul, Relief

  Plato (2012). “Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic”, p.426, Courier Corporation

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• You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action - that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one.

  Plato

  Men, Thinking, Life And Death

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

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• A person who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he or she ought only to consider whether in doing anything he or she is doing right or wrong- acting the part of a good person or a bad person.

  Plato

  Dying, Acting, Chance

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