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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

Knowledge, Evil, Aim

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

Work, Acceptance, Self

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The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

Plato

Knowledge, Math, Eternity

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

Philosophical

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They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

Plato

Philosophical, Exercise, Names

Republic III.405.D

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A well begun is half ended.

A. C. Benson

Half, Action, Wells

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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

Plato

Lying, Enemy, Privilege

Plato (1866). “The Republic of Plato, tr. with an analysis and notes, by J.L. Davies and D.J. Vaughan”, p.80

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And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are unpoetical, or unattractive to the popular ear, but because the greater the poetical charm in them, the less are they meet for the ears of boys and men who are meant to be free, and who should fear slavery more than death.

Plato

Boys, Men, Ears

Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.269, Xist Publishing

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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.

Plato

Memories, Men, Slavery

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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Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

Plato

Inspirational, Life, Self

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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Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

Plato

Honor, Noble, Treasure

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Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them.

Plato

Lying, Men, Medicine

Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.223, Penguin

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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.

Plato

Character, Mean, Simplicity

Plato (2013). “The Republic: A Socratic Dialogue Concerning the Definition of Justice and the Order and Character of the Just City-State and the Just Man (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.322, Lulu Press, Inc

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No human thing is of serious importance.

Plato

Worry, Anxiety, Serious

Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.489, Xist Publishing

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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Plato

Democracies Have, Political, Democracy

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In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we're making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we're hold out for.)

Susan Neiman

Effort, Enlightenment, Belief

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Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

Plato

Life, Philosophical, Health

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

Love, Romance, Disease

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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Plato

Being Happy, Greatest Wealth, Heartache

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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.

Plato

People, Atheism, Stubborn

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My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. I study them. I devour them with fury.

Franz Liszt

Inspiration, Mind, Study

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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Plato

Wise, Wisdom, Witty

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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Plato

Family, Children, Philosophical

Plato, Charles Henry Augustus Bulkley (1876). “Plato's Best Thoughts: Compiled from Prof. Jowett's Translation of the Dialogues of Plato”, p.62

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If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humored these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.

Blaise Pascal

Kings, Order, Talking

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From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil.

Marcus Aurelius

Men, Thinking, Views

Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.39, Lulu.com

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