Quotes 61 till 80 of 117.
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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
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Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.
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Plato had slaves...George Washington had slaves...So, do I feel intrinsically better than these two men? Of course I do! They're dead!
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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
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Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
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Science is nothing but perception.
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Self conquest is the greatest of victories.
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Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.
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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
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Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
Phaedrus -
The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
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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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