Plato quotes - page 8

After much effort, as names, definitions, sights, and other data of sense, are brought into contact and friction one with another, in the course of scrutiny and kindly testing by men who proceed by question and answer without ill will, with a sudden flash there shines forth understanding about every problem, and an intelligence whose efforts reach the furthest limits of human powers. (Plato)
So when the universe was quickened with soul, God was well pleased; and he bethought him to make it yet more like its type. And whereas the type is eternal and nought that is created can be eternal, he devised for it a moving image of abiding eternity, which we call time. And he made days and months and years, which are portions of time; and past and future are forms of time, though we wrongly attribute them also to eternity. For of eternal Being we ought not to say 'it was', 'it shall be', but 'it is' alone: and in like manner we are wrong in saying 'it is' of sensible things which become and perish; for these are ever fleeting and changing, having their existence in time. View quote
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The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs when he first appears he is a protector. View quote
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Courage is knowing what not to fear. View quote
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It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn. View quote
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The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable. View quote
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As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers. View quote
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The greatest penalty of evildoing namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men. View quote
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Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways. View quote
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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. View quote
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We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection. (Plato)
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. View quote
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A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants. View quote
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The punishment suffered by the wise who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of bad men. View quote
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He was a wise man who invented beer. View quote
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Life must be lived as play. View quote
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The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions. View quote
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Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light. View quote
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant. View quote
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There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them. View quote
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Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones. (Plato)
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. View quote
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Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil. View quote
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Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures. View quote
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No human thing is of serious importance. View quote
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