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#1

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
― Plato

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#2

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
― Plato

tags: philosophy

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#3

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
― Plato

tags: discipline, education, mentoring, philosophy

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#4

“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: government, inferiority, politics, rule

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#5

“Love is a serious mental disease.”
― Plato, Phaedrus

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#6

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: apology, knowing, nothing, paradox, plato, republic, socrates, socratic, wisdome

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#7

“good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”
― Plato

tags: laws, people

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#8

“The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.”
― Plato, Phaedrus

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#9

“...and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment...”
― Plato, The Symposium

tags: love, soulmates

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#10

“I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.”
― Plato

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#11

“Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.”
― Plato

tags: inspirational

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#12

“When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.”
― Plato

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#13

“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
― Plato

tags: courage, fear

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#14

“There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.”
― Plato

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#15

“In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.”
― Plato

tags: philosophy, politics

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#16

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: beginning, plato, republic

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#17

“How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? ”
― Plato

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#18

“Death is not the worst that can happen to men.”
― Plato

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#19

“Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: law, music, state

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#20

“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.”
― Plato

tags: things-plato-didn-t-say

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#21

“Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent",
in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".”
― Plato

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#22

“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. ”
― Plato

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#23

“A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. ”
― Plato

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#24

“There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.”
― Plato, The Republic

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#25

“I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.”
― Plato, Apology

tags: apology, knowledge, plato, socrates, wisdom

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#26

“Books are immortal sons defying their sires.”
― Plato

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#27

“The first and best victory is to conquer self”
― Plato

tags: inspirational

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#28

“Man is a being in search of meaning.”
― Plato

tags: inspirational

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#29

“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”
― Plato

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#30

“How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?”
― Plato, The Allegory of the Cave

tags: enlightenment, philosophy

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