Quotes by Plato with evil

Plato

Plato

Greek philosopher

Lived from: 427 - 347

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  • Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
  • Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.
  • 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.
  • No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
  • 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.
  • No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
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  • 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.
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  • Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
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  • Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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  • Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
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  • Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
    Phaedrus
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