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Title: ~ Plato Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 09:34:41 AM
Plato Quotes

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A Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
Plato, was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy and science. In the famous words of A.N. Whitehead:

Here are some famous quotes by  Plato.

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To be is to do.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 09:35:19 AM
Excellent things are rare.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 09:36:48 AM
Life must be lived as play.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 09:37:46 AM
Love - a grave mental disease.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 09:38:25 AM
Courage is a kind of salvation.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 09:39:30 AM
Science is nothing but perception.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 09:40:34 AM
Friends have all things in common.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 09:41:05 AM
All learning has an emotional base.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 09:41:40 AM
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 09:42:10 AM
Time is the moving image of eternity.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 09:43:00 AM
Every man is a poet when he is in love.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 09:43:30 AM
No human thing is of serious importance.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 09:44:10 AM
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 09:45:46 AM
Self-conquest is the greatest of victories.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 09:47:48 AM
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 09:48:52 AM
The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 09:50:43 AM
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 09:52:12 AM
Ignorance the root and the stem of every evil.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 09:53:15 AM
Death is not the worst than can happen to men.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 09:53:48 AM
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 09:54:22 AM
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 09:55:09 AM
Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 09:55:43 AM
Of all animals the boy is the most unmanageable.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 09:56:10 AM
Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 09:57:00 AM
The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 09:57:30 AM
When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 09:58:44 AM
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 09:59:16 AM
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 10:00:35 AM
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 10:01:52 AM
We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 10:02:19 AM
Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 10:02:51 AM
A boy is of all wild beasts the most difficult to manage.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 10:03:22 AM
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 10:03:49 AM
States are as the men are; they grow out of human characters.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 10:04:28 AM
No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 10:05:00 AM
The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 10:05:31 AM
The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 10:05:58 AM
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 10:06:34 AM
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress no matter how slow.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2015, 10:06:59 AM
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2015, 01:13:27 PM
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2015, 01:14:09 PM
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2015, 01:15:02 PM
False words are not only evil in themselves but they infect the soul with evil.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2015, 01:15:54 PM
There are three classes of men-lovers of wisdom lovers of honour lovers of gain.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2015, 01:17:47 PM
The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely to grow into the likeness of bad men.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2015, 01:19:04 PM
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2015, 01:21:05 PM
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2015, 01:23:25 PM
If women are expected to do the same work as men we must teach them the same things.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2015, 01:24:55 PM
Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2015, 01:25:45 PM
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2015, 01:26:38 PM
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2015, 01:27:31 PM
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2015, 01:29:07 PM
There are two things a person should never be angry at what they can help and what they cannot.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2015, 01:29:59 PM
The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2015, 01:31:00 PM
Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year for it is wrong to add fire to fire.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2015, 01:32:04 PM
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence and poverty of meanness and viciousness and both of discontent.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2015, 01:32:44 PM
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several he will fail to achieve distinction in any.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2015, 01:33:22 PM
The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways - I to die and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2015, 01:34:02 PM
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2015, 01:34:42 PM
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it and not because they shrink from committing it.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2015, 04:09:29 PM
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2015, 04:09:59 PM
There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses another which makes and a third which imitates them.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2015, 04:10:33 PM
Bodily exercise when compulsory does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2015, 04:11:01 PM
Wealth ... and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence and the other of meanness and vicious-ness and both of discontent.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2015, 04:11:27 PM
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2015, 04:11:59 PM
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe wings to the mind flight to the imagination and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2015, 04:12:27 PM
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself and not upon other men has adopted the very best plan for living happily.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2015, 04:12:57 PM
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2015, 04:13:24 PM
The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute cares nothing about the rights of the question but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2015, 04:13:54 PM
You are young my son and as the years go by time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2015, 04:14:16 PM
Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed whose spirit cannot be subdued or softened or hindered from plunging into evil.