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When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
- Plato
#Author
#Benefit
#May
#Often
#Said
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
#Great
#Things
#Understand
#Which
#Wise
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
- Plato
#Equality
#Injustice
#Justice
#Nature
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
- Plato
#Children
#Perfect
#Promotion
#Virtue
To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
- Plato
#Go
#Injustice
#Soul
#World
#Worst
Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
- Plato
#Doing
#Fear
#Injustice
#Suffering
#Which
Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.
- Plato
#Help
#Her
#Justice
#Need
#Would
We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
- Plato
#Earth
#Fly
#God
#Possible
#Wise
I would fain grow old learning many things.
- Plato
#Grow
#Learning
#Old
#Things
#Would
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
- Plato
#Everyone
#Look
#Soul
#Things
#World
Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
- Plato
#Comforter
#Great
#Known
#Wealth
#Well
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
- Plato
#Grow
#Human
#Men
#Out
#States
The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
- Plato
#Gods
#Intolerable
#Man
#Service
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
#Compulsion
#Man
#Memory
#Ought
#Study
Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
- Plato
#Being
#Capable
#Human Being
#Human
#Two
Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.
- Plato
#Accidents
#Happening
#Man
#Never
#Ways
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
- Plato
#Action
#Always
#Curse
#Me
#Nation
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
- Plato
#Conflict
#Great
#Life
#Other
#Take
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
- Plato
#Introduction
#Music
#New
#Political
Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
- Plato
#Actions
#Ages
#Relative
#Us
#Virtue
The wisest have the most authority.
- Plato
#Authority
#Most
#Wisest
He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
- Plato
#He
#Little
#Power
#Same
#Wish
There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
- Plato
#Lovers
#Oath
#Thing
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
- Plato
#Country
#Men
#Mind
#Practice
#Women
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
- Plato
#Govern
#Teach
#Wants
#Well
#Who
Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
- Plato
#Man
#Old Man
#Old
#Only
#Time
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
- Plato
#Change
#Direction
#Reaction
#Seasons
Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
- Plato
#Good
#Repeat
#Review
#They Say
#Twice
The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
- Plato
#Divine
#Endure
#Eyes
#Soul
#Vision
The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
- Plato
#Deemed
#Highest
#Injustice
#Just
#Reach
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
- Plato
#Enchantment
#Magical
#Men
#Whatever
Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
- Plato
#Animal
#Feet
#Man
#Nails
#Two
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
- Plato
#Common
#Everybody
#Life
#Mouth
#Saying
There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
- Plato
#Best
#Defeat
#Hands
#Man
#Victory
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
- Plato
#Always
#Good
#Must
#Remain
#Something
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
- Plato
#Capable
#Ever
#Known
#Reasoning
#Who
No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
- Plato
#Death
#Evil
#Fear
#Good
#People
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
- Plato
#Cunning
#Low
#Mimic
#Wisdom
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
- Plato
#Alone
#Other
#Science
#Sciences
#Wisdom
Philosophy begins in wonder.
- Plato
#Begins
#Philosophy
#Wonder
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
- Plato
#Anything
#Direction
#Opposite
#Reaction
To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
- Plato
#Haste
#Little
#Speed
#Too Much
#Which
Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
- Plato
#Done
#Great
#Love
#Others
#Own
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
- Plato
#Being
#Content
#Virtuous
#Who
#Without
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.
- Plato
#Age
#Calm
#Nature
#Pressure
#Youth
If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
- Plato
#Meaning
#Must
Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
- Plato
#Every Man
#Good
#Harm
#Man
#May
Philosophy is the highest music.
- Plato
#Highest
#Music
#Philosophy
A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
- Plato
#Mankind
#Needs
#State
#Us
#Wants
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
- Plato
#Beginning
#Gods
#Good
#Man
#Truth
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
- Plato
#Man
#Moment
#Quality
#Right
#Will
The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
- Plato
#Community
#Poverty
#Principles
#Will
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
- Plato
#Aim
#Becomes
#Evil
#Knowledge
#Virtuous
One man cannot practice many arts with success.
- Plato
#Cannot
#Man
#Many
#Practice
#Success
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
- Plato
#Liberty
#Only
#Pass
#Seems
#State
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
- Plato
#Awake
#Dream
#Moment
#Talking
#Thoughts
As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
- Plato
#Lie
#Say
#Stones
#Well
#Without
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
- Plato
#Death
#Last
#Must
#Things
#Up
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
- Plato
#He
#Injustice
#Made
#More
#Who
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
- Plato
#Anything
#Doing
#Never
#Work
#Worth
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
- Plato
#Children
#Education
#Man
#Nature
#World
The good is the beautiful.
- Plato
#Beautiful
#Good
The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
- Plato
#Good
#Home
#Lie
#Only
#Privilege
#State
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
- Plato
#Class
#Construction
#Greatest
#Happiness
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
- Plato
#Democracy
#Naturally
#Out
#Tyranny
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
- Plato
#Law
#Mightier
#Than
#Understanding
The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.
- Plato
#God
#Hunger
#Impossible
#Love
#Need
#Stamp
When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
- Plato
#Itself
#Mind
#Talking
#Thinking
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
- Plato
#Dishonesty
#Honesty Is
#Honesty
#Less
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
- Plato
#Evil
#Good
#Man
#Nature
#Will
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
- Plato
#Enemies
#Fear
#Nothing
#People
#War
Necessity... the mother of invention.
- Plato
#Invention
#Mother
#Necessity
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
- Plato
#Government
#Live
#Men
#Punishment
#Wise
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
- Plato
#Death
#Evil
#Good
#Life
#Man
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
- Plato
#Anxiety
#Great
#Men
#Nothing
#Worthy
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
- Plato
#Earth
#Enough
#Exchange
#Gold
#Virtue
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
- Plato
#History
#Poetry
#Than
#Truth
#Vital
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
- Plato
#Diseases
#Give
#Medical
#Names
#Strange
Knowledge is true opinion.
- Plato
#Knowledge
#Opinion
#True
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
- Plato
#Evil
#Ignorance
#Knowledge
#Learning
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
- Plato
#Cunning
#Justice
#Knowledge
#Wisdom
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
- Plato
#Food
#Knowledge
#Said
#Soul
#Surely
Democracy passes into despotism.
- Plato
#Democracy
#Despotism
#Government
#Passes
The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
- Plato
#Blame
#Blameless
#God
#His
#Who
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
- Plato
#Direction
#Education
#Future
#Life
#Man
Courage is a kind of salvation.
- Plato
#Courage
#Kind
#Salvation
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
- Plato
#Man
#More
#Pay
#Same
#Will
No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
- Plato
#Friend
#His
#Love
#Return
#Who
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
- Plato
#Bad
#Evil
#Great
#Learning
#Training
We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
- Plato
#Call
#Learn
#Learning
#Only
#Process
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
- Plato
#Art
#Men
#Minds
#Rhetoric
#Ruling
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
- Plato
#Effort
#Good
#Land
#Life
#Yourself
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
- Plato
#Good
#Joy
#Love Is
#Love
#Wise
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
- Plato
#Compulsion
#Hold
#Knowledge
#Mind
#Which
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
- Plato
#Business
#Justice
#Means
#Men
#Own
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
- Plato
#Education
#Movement
#Music
#Soul
#Sound
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
- Plato
#Best
#Character
#Happiness
#Men
#Wisdom
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
- Plato
#Armed
#Faith
#Fight
#Twice
Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
- Plato
#Begins
#Feeling
#Philosophy
#Wonder
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
- Plato
#Astronomy
#Look
#Soul
#Us
#World
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