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Plato Quotes - Page 18

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Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.

Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.

Inspirational, Men, Evil

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.

Character, Reality, Words Of Wisdom

The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.

Men, Perfect, Soul

Plato, Francis Bacon, Ignatius Donnelly, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, William Scott-Elliot (2016). “THE ATLANTIS COLLECTION - 6 Books About The Mythical Lost World: Plato’s Original Myth + The Lost Continent + The Story of Atlantis + The Antedeluvian World + New Atlantis: The Myth & The Theories”, p.23, e-artnow

It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

Men, Doors, Poetry

Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Luxury, Parent, Poverty

Plato (2012). “The Republic and Other Works”, p.110, Anchor

For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.

Eye, Evil, Soul

Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.52, Booklassic

We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in the idle fancy that we already know -- or that it is of no use seeking to know what we do not know.

Indulge In, Use, Fancy

The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.

Plato, Parent, Noble

Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.974, Delphi Classics

Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

Knowledge, People, Pleasure

Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.390, Xist Publishing

It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.

Eye, Soul, Geometry

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

Art, Three, Use

Plato (2012). “Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic”, p.441, Courier Corporation

That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed.

Care, Ridiculous, Guardian

Plato (2012). “The Republic and Other Works”, p.92, Anchor

The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some divine dispensation, those who rule and have political authority in the cities become real philosophers.

Real, Race, Cities

Love is a severe mental disorder.

Sexy, Love Is, Disorder

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Depression, Class, Construction

Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.246

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

Plato, Philosophical, Men

The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.

Men, Worthless, Wisest

Apology, 23b (translated by H Tredennick).

And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.

Health, Doctors, Names

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

Philosophical, Ifs

It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice.

Men, Brave, Philosopher

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I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax... and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget or do not know.

Block, Taken, Men

Plato (1871). “Gorgias. Philebus. Parmenides. Theaetetus. Sophist. Statesman”, p.396

...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.

Eye, Men, Soul

Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.26, University Press of America

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Love, Marriage, Wise

Plato (2012). “Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic”, p.161, Courier Corporation

The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has in fact been followed throughout, the principle of one man one job, of minding one s own business , in the sense of doing the job for which one is naturally fitted and not interfering with other people.

Jobs, Men, Discipline

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

Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.

Sparks

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