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Plato Quotes - Page 13

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Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of

Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure.

Beautiful, Wise, Self

Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.

Fall, Men, Soldier

Plato (2016). “The Complete Works of Plato (Unabridged): From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.650, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre.

Men, Musician, Virtue

Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.87

The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

Wise, Wisdom, Clever

A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.

Confused, Eye, Men

Abstinence is the surety of temperance.

Abstinence, Temperance

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”

I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.

Pain, Coins, Virtue

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We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.

Hands, People, Words Of Wisdom

No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

Plato, Intelligent, Men

Plato (1963). “The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters”, Bollingen

The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'

Pain, Anger, Envy

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

Graduation, Education, Appreciation

Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.12, University Press of America

It would be better for me ... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.

Men, Would Be, Harmony

Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.

Education, School, Roots

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

Justice, Would Be, Needs

Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.311, Xist Publishing

The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.

Forever, Soul, Arriving

Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.

Soul, Yoke, Madness

Plato (2016). “The Complete Works of Plato (Unabridged): From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.1540, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.

Wise, Thinking, Fear Of Death

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It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.

Inspirational, Giving, Levels

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

Philosophical, Suffering, Haste

Plato (1871). “Gorgias. Philebus. Parmenides. Theaetetus. Sophist. Statesman”, p.547

Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.

Math, Numbers, Degrees

When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when it turns to the twilight world of change and decay, it can only form opinions, its vision is confused and its beliefs shifting, and it seems to lack intelligence.

Confused, Twilight, Eye

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.

Eye, Dark, Men

Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.333, Penguin

Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided the madness is given us by divine gift.

Blessing, Way, Madness

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato, Philosophical

Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

Love Is, Desire, World

Plato, Alexander Nehamas, Paul Woodruff (1995). “Phaedrus”, p.25, Hackett Publishing

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