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Plato Quotes - Page 12

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There is truth in wine and children

There is truth in wine and children

Children, Wine

Plato (1989). “Symposium”, p.69, Hackett Publishing

All men, well interrogated, answer well.

Men, Answers, Conversation

He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.

Love, Inspirational, Darkness

Plato (2012). “Symposium and Phaedrus”, p.29, Courier Corporation

It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.

Thinking, Soul, Excellence

Plato, Raymond Larson (1979). “The Republic”, Wiley-Blackwell

When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.

May, Admonish, Hostility

The power to learn is present in everyone's soul, and the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body.

Eye, Light, Darkness

Republic, bk.7, 518c (translated by G M A Grube, revised by C D C Reeve).

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Success, Men, Greatest Victory

Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.

Knowing, Soul, Remembered

When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.

Believe, Caring, Men

The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning.

Important, Stage, Enterprise

Republic, bk.2, 377b (translated by RWaterfield,1993).

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Inspirational, Plato, Philosophical

The good is the beautiful.

Beauty, Beautiful, Philosophical

Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink downward day after day, and make their whole life one continued series of errors.

Sweet, Errors, Virtue

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”

Pleasure is the bait of sin

Bait, Sin, Pleasure

A work well begun is half-ended.

Half, Wells

We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind; nor exercise the mind without the joint assistance of the body.

Exercise, Mind, Body

He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed.

Plowing, Seeds, Knows

You cannot go into the same water twice.

Change, Water

Plato, Aeterna Press (2015). “Cratylus”, p.96, Aeterna Press

...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

Inspirational, Education, Philosophy

Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.

Harmony, Results, Rhythm

The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.

Philosophy, Life Is, Life Worth Living

Apology, 38a (translated by H Tredennick).

Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.

Heart, Degrees, Doe

Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.

Education, Years, Childhood

Plato (2011). “Three Dialogues: Protagoras, Philebus, and Gorgias”, p.18, Cosimo, Inc.

One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on.

Ambition, Character, Reality

Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful.

Wise, Wisdom, Men

Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.6020, Catholic Way Publishing

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