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Plato
Greek
Philosopher
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Philosophy begins in wonder.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Wonder
#Philosophy
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Evil
#Knowledge
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Faith
#Fight
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#First
To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Haste
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,
Greek
Philosopher
#Will
#Evil
#Nature
#Human nature
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Love
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,
Greek
Philosopher
#Love
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Man
#Truth
#Beginning
#Gods
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Direction
#Causes
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,
Greek
Philosopher
#World
#Soul
#Injustice
Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Democracy
#Tyranny
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Content
#Wealth
The good is the beautiful.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Man
#Service
#Gods
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Soul
#Talking
The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Vision
#Eyes
#Soul
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Honor
#Men
#Wisdom
#Gain
#Lovers
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Life
#Will
#Man
#Education
#Future
#Direction
Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Virtue
#Actions
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#First
#Victory
The wisest have the most authority.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Authority
The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#God
#Blame
The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Will
#Poverty
#Community
#Principles
The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Injustice
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Knowledge
#Learning
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,
Greek
Philosopher
#Character
#Man
#Men
#Living
#Wisdom
#Happiness
#Moderation
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Man
#Power
#Measure
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Education
#Training
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Being
#Content
There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Harm
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,
Greek
Philosopher
#Home
#May
#State
#Lie
#Lying
#Privilege
They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Names
Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Time
#Man
#Old
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Nature
#Equality
#Custom
#Injustice
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Help
There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Lovers
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Now
#Will
#World
#End
#Power
#Humanity
#states
#Kings
#Philosophy
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,
Greek
Philosopher
#Man
#First
#Defeat
#Victory
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Names
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Government
#Men
#Punishment
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Work
#Beginning
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Men
#states
Science is nothing but perception.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Nothing
#Science
#Perception
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Art
#Men
#Rhetoric
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Poets
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#History
#Truth
#Poetry
Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Fear
#Suffering
#Injustice
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Children
#Spirit
#Parents
Life must be lived as play.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Life
#Play
Love is a serious mental disease.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Love
#Disease
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Love
#Wonder
#Joy
#Gods
Man - a being in search of meaning.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Being
#Man
#Meaning
Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Man
#Feet
Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#People
#Death
#Fear
#May
#Evil
When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Thinking
#Mind
#Talking
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Life
#Men
#Tragedy
#Light
We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Learning
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,
Greek
Philosopher
#Children
#First
#Virtue
#Importance
#Promotion
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,
Greek
Philosopher
#God
#Earth
#Heaven
Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Wealth
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Men
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#End
#War
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#May
#Men
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Ignorance
#Knowledge
#Opinion
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,
Greek
Philosopher
#People
#Nothing
#Fear
#War
#May
#Enemies
#Order
#Leader
#Conquest
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Will
#Man
#Tax
#Income
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Science
#Wisdom
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Men
#Fools
Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Wonder
#Feeling
#Philosophy
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Play
#Conversation
Your silence gives consent.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Silence
When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#May
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Food
#Knowledge
#Soul
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Fear
#Courage
Courage is a kind of salvation.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Courage
#Salvation
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Life
#Attention
#Health
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Love
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#World
#Soul
#Astronomy
As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Lie
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#State
#Class
#Happiness
Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#May
#Man
#Harm
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Wisdom
#Cunning
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,
Greek
Philosopher
#Right
#Will
#Occupation
#Man
#Quality
#Gifts
#Quantity
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Earth
#Virtue
#Gold
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#God
#Earth
#Poor
#Men
#Nature
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,
Greek
Philosopher
#State
#Needs
#Self
#Mankind
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Man
#Men
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Knowledge
#Numbers
#Decision
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Justice
#Knowledge
#Wisdom
#Cunning
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,
Greek
Philosopher
#Now
#Life
#Effort
#Land
Philosophy is the highest music.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Music
#Philosophy
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#People
#Growth
#Help
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,
Greek
Philosopher
#Action
#Nation
Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Death
#Men
He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Power
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Honesty
#Dishonesty
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,
Greek
Philosopher
#State
#Talking
#Dream
#Thoughts
#Waking
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Knowledge
#Desire
#Behavior
#Emotion
He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Will
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Injustice
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Work
#Worth
#Accident
#Inventions
I shall assume that your silence gives consent.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Silence
I would fain grow old learning many things.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Old
#Learning
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Life
#End
#Man
#Education
If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Meaning
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,
Greek
Philosopher
#Ignorance
#Evil
#Training
#Learning
#Misfortune
#Cleverness
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,
Greek
Philosopher
#Life
#Conflict
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Man
#First
Democracy passes into despotism.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Democracy
Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Democracy
#Government
#Equality
#Variety
#Disorder
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Liberty
#Democracy
#Slavery
#Tyranny
#Extreme
#Dictatorship
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,
Greek
Philosopher
#Being
#Ignorance
#Evil
#Learning
#Extreme
#Cleverness
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Heart
#Song
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,
Greek
Philosopher
#Will
#Youth
#Age
#Pressure
#Nature
#Burden
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Liberty
#State
#Lies
#Slavery
#Excess
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Life
#Saying
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Education
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,
Greek
Philosopher
#State
#Music
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Strength
#Actions
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#People
#Will
#Act
#Laws
Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Being
He was a wise man who invented beer.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Man
#Beer
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,
Greek
Philosopher
#Change
#Direction
#Excess
#Causes
#Seasons
No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Love
#Friend
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Ignorance
#Evil
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Death
Necessity... the mother of invention.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Necessity
#Mother
#Invention
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Life
#Death
#Man
#Evil
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Law
#Understanding
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.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Life
#Law
#Imagination
#Universe
#Mind
#Soul
#Music
#Charm
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Man
#Accidents
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,
Greek
Philosopher
#Study
#Man
#Memory
#Slavery
Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Help
#Justice
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,
Greek
Philosopher
#Nothing
#Practice
#Being
#State
#Country
#Men
#Mind
#Women
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Nothing
#Men
#Anxiety
One man cannot practice many arts with success.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Success
#Practice
#Man
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#End
#Being
#Politics
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Children
#World
#End
#Man
#Education
#Nature
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Mind
#Knowledge
Knowledge is true opinion.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Knowledge
#Opinion
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,
Greek
Philosopher
#World
#Soul
#Events
#Astronomy
It is right to give every man his due.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Right
#Man
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Life
#State
#First
#Justice
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Men
#Justice
#Business
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Plato,
Greek
Philosopher
#Education
#Virtue
#Soul
#Music
#Sound