Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Plato quotes, Plato sayings, and Plato proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.Plato
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Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness.Plato
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Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul.Plato
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Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul.Plato
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Abstinence is the surety of temperancePlato
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Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?Plato
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Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.Plato
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Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough.Plato
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The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.Plato
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.Plato
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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.Plato
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Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.Plato
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The wisest have the most authority.Plato
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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.Plato
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A man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life.Plato
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Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.Plato
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.Plato
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.Plato
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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.Plato
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Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.Plato
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The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.Plato
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It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.Plato
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Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.Plato
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Excellent things are rare.Plato
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Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.Plato
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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.Plato
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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow even if that someone is yourself!Plato
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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.Plato
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Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.Plato
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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.Plato