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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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Excellent things are rare.
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Life must be lived as play.
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Love - a grave mental disease.
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Courage is a kind of salvation.
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Science is nothing but perception.
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Friends have all things in common.
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All learning has an emotional base.
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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Time is the moving image of eternity.
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Every man is a poet when he is in love.
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
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Self-conquest is the greatest of victories.
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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
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The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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Ignorance the root and the stem of every evil.
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Death is not the worst than can happen to men.
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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
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Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
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Of all animals the boy is the most unmanageable.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.
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Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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A boy is of all wild beasts the most difficult to manage.
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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
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States are as the men are; they grow out of human characters.
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No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.
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The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.
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The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention.
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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress no matter how slow.
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He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
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False words are not only evil in themselves but they infect the soul with evil.
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There are three classes of men-lovers of wisdom lovers of honour lovers of gain.
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The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely to grow into the likeness of bad men.
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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
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If women are expected to do the same work as men we must teach them the same things.
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Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.
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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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There are two things a person should never be angry at what they can help and what they cannot.
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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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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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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence and poverty of meanness and viciousness and both of discontent.
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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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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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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it and not because they shrink from committing it.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.