Plato quotes - page 6

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter. (Plato)
Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do. View quote
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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. View quote
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The wisest have the most authority. View quote
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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child. View quote
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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern. View quote
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One man cannot practice many arts with success. View quote
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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. View quote
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When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure. View quote
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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. View quote
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The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not. (Plato)
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. View quote
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I would fain grow old learning many things. View quote
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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters. View quote
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To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way. View quote
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Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety. View quote
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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. View quote
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Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails. View quote
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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. View quote
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Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice. View quote
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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. (Plato)
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality. View quote
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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. View quote
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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. View quote
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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. View quote
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