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Plato Quotes - Page 19

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I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.

I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.

Death, Men, Hours

Plato, M. G. Epictetus (2010). “The Apology, Phaedo and Crito by Plato; The Golden Sayings by Epictetus; The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.

Ignorance, Curiosity, Ridiculous

For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson.

Army, Fighting, Men

Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.80

Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.

Democracy, Idlers, Bees

Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

Love Is, Two, Trying

Plato, John M. Cooper, D. S. Hutchinson (1997). “Complete Works”, p.474, Hackett Publishing

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

Plato, May, Injustice

Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.227, Xist Publishing

Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.

Beauty, Eye, Men

Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.107, Penguin

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

May, Deceiving, Said

Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.1384, Delphi Classics

All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

Dance, Art, Men

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Philosophical, Law, Understanding

Plato (1926). “Laws”

How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, "How does love suit with age, Sophocles - are you still the man you were?" he replied, "Peace, most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master."

Men, Mad, Age

Beauty is a natural superiority.

Beauty, Natural, Superiority

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”

There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

Belief, Applause, Multitudes

Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.256, Penguin

All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.

Evil, Dishonorable

Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: Charmides, Lysis, Other Dialogues and the Laws”, p.184, Cosimo, Inc.

Not by force shall the children learn, but through play

Children, Play, Force

'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation', he said, 'but you might succeed with the second and later generations.'

Believe, Thinking, Words Of Wisdom

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

Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.

Wings, Giving, Imagination

I have this tattooed on my left side! I love the saying and it's a perfect description of Karma, don't judge/discriminate and don't do to someone what you wouldn't want done to you.

Karma, Perfect, Judging

Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.

Education, Law, Youth

Plato (1872). “Laws. Appendix: Lesser Hippias. First Alcibiades. Menexenus. Index of persons and places”, p.189

Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt.

Healthy, Soul, Body

Gorgias, 479b (translated byWR M Lamb,1967).

Our need will be the real creator.

Real, Needs, Creator

Plato (1894). “Notes”

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

Faith, Age, Opinion

'But surely "blind" is just how you would describe men who have no true knowledge of reality, and no clear standard in their mind to refer to, as a painter refers to his model, and which they can study closely before they start laying down rules about what is fair or right or good where they are needed, or maintaining, as Guardians, any rules that already exist.' 'Yes, blind is just about what they are'

Reality, Men, Words Of Wisdom

In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.

Dance, Order, Dancing

When the music changes, the walls of the city shake.

Wall, Cities, Shakes

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