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Plato Quotes - Page 14

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A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.

A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.

Kings, Would Be, Philosopher

Wine fills the heart with courage.

Heart, Wine

Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world

Mother, Giving, Different

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

Philosophical, Good Things, Harm

Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.118, Cosimo, Inc.

By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.

Mean, Men, Names

As the government is, such will be the man.

Men, Government, He Man

Plato (2015). “The Republic”, p.303, First Avenue Editions

Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.

Confused, Inspiration, Mean

We must now examine whether just people also live better and are happier than unjust ones. I think it's clear already that this is so, but we must look into it further, since the argument concerns no ordinary topic, but the way we ought to live.

Thinking, People, Looks

Republic, bk.1, 352d (translated by GM AGrube, revised by C D C Reeve).

Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning the Universe would ever have been given if men had not seen the stars or the sun or the heavens. But as it is, the vision of day and night and of months and circling years has created the art of number and has given us not only the notion of Time but also means of research into the nature of the Universe. From these we have procured Philosophy in all its range, than which no greater boon ever has come or will come, by divine bestowal, unto the race of mortals.

Art, Stars, Philosophy

...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Good Life, Life Is

Plato (2013). “Dialogues of Plato”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love - all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce.

Powerful, Philosophy, Gay

Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?

Plato, Men, Courageous

Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.268, Xist Publishing

A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.

Fighting, Men, Justice

Plato (2002). “Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo”, p.36, Hackett Publishing

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

Inspirational, Plato, Men

Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.185, Penguin

Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function correctly.

Soul, Looks, Body

The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.

Victory, Runners, Prize

Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.499, Xist Publishing

Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?

Political, Unity, Splits

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Love, Doe, Return

Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.54

The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.

Athlete, Savages, Too Much

Plato, Justin Kaplan (1951). “Dialogues of Plato”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'

Men, Words Of Wisdom, Taste

Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.

Men, Honor, Desire

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

Philosophical, Eye, Soul

Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.

Beautiful, Law, Essence

Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.

Anxiety, Affair, Humans

All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy.

Love, Blessed, Names

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