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Plato Quotes - Page 10

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If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.

If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.

Men, Generosity, Mind

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

Hero, Stories, Leisure

Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.259, Xist Publishing

The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.

Leadership, Taken, New Beginnings

Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.260, Xist Publishing

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato, Knowledge, Evil

The wrong use of a thing is far worse than the non-use.

Use

Xenophon, Plato, William Smith, William De Witt Hyde, Henry Sidgwick (2016). “Stoic Six Pack 7: The Sophists”, p.70, Lulu.com

Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

Madness, Sober, Humans

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

Plato, Philosophical, Opposites

Be kind, for everyone is having a hard battle.

Battle, Be Kind, Kind

A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.

Hands, Office, Democracy

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

God, Blame, Blameless

Plato (1963). “The Republic”

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Plato, Conflict, Combat

Plato (1871). “Gorgias. Philebus. Parmenides. Theaetetus. Sophist. Statesman”, p.118

To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

Wise, Evil, Becoming

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

Wonder is the beginning of the desire to know the beautiful and the good.

Beautiful, Desire, Wonder

Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds a little afterwards that he is wicked, faithless, and then he meets with another of the same character. When a man experiences this often, and more particularly from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends, at last, having frequently made a slip, he hates the whole world, and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them.

Hate, Character, Men

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Workout, Philosophical, Reviews

Plato (1871). “Gorgias. Philebus. Parmenides. Theaetetus. Sophist. Statesman”, p.89

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Inspirational, Courage, Philosophical

Plato (1883). “Plato's Best Thoughts”

Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking.

Beautiful, Wise, Ignorance

To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.

Evil, Justice, Injustice

Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and on earth; and he who would be blessed and happy should be from the first a partaker of truth, for then he can be trusted.

Blessed, New Beginnings, Heaven

Plato (1883). “Plato's Best Thoughts”

Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.

Play, Community, Citizens

Democracy passes into despotism.

Plato, Philosophical, Government

Man was not made for himself alone

Men, Made

My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

Hate, People, Hatred

A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

Writing, Men, Swim

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

Philosophical, Giving, Silence

Plato, Aeterna Press (2015). “Cratylus”, p.133, Aeterna Press

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