Quotes by Plato

Plato

Plato

Greek philosopher

Lived from: 427 - 347

Category: Philosophers Country: FlagGreece

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  • Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
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  • Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.
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  • Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
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  • Man is a being in search of meaning.
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  • Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
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  • Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
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  • Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
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  • No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
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  • 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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  • Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
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  • Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
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