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Plato Quotes - Page 21

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Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.

Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.

Teacher, Science, Men

You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.

Remember, Deluge

Plato (2015). “Plato: The Complete Works: 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.1914, e-artnow

If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.

Love, Men, Doe

Plato (2007). “The Republic”, p.292, Penguin UK

He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity.

Adversity, Want, Helping

The soul should concentrate itself by itself.

Soul, Should

To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.

Thinking, Deception, Noble

Plato (2015). “Theaetetus: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.134, 谷月社

Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

Beautiful, Suffering, Reaching

I should not like to say ... that any kind of knowledge is not to be learned; for all knowledge appears to be a good.

Kind, Should

Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.81

The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; and these, it is said, are of the greatest service or of the greatest injury to the dead man, at the very beginning of his journey hither.

Journey, Men, Other Worlds

May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?

Justice, May, Hearing

Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.439, Cosimo, Inc.

Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.

Poet, Asks

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

Children, Plato, Parenting

Plato (2005). “The Republic”, p.82, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.

Should Have, Long, Evil

Plato, General Press (2016). “The Republic”, p.299, GENERAL PRESS

...the Gods too love a joke.

Jokes

Plato, Aeterna Press (2015). “Cratylus”, p.100, Aeterna Press

Because, unlike courage and wisdom, which made our state brave and wise by being present in a particular part of it, discipline operates by being diffused throughout the whole of it. It produces a concord between its strongest and weakest and middle elements, whether you define them by the standard of good sense, or of strength, or of numbers or money or the like. And so we are quite justified in regarding discipline as this sort of natural harmony and agreement between higher and lower about which of them is to rule in state and individual.

Wise, Agreement, Numbers

[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.

Art, Giving, Persuasion

Plato (2015). “Plato: The Complete Works: 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.1535, e-artnow

Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.

Plato, Swimming, Feelings

As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

May, Inquiry, Beloved

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Man's greatest victory is over oneself.

Men, Greatest Victory, Victory

So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

Government, Lust, Lovers

In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.

Mind, Speech, Matter

Plato (2005). “Essential Dialogues of Plato”, Barnes & Noble

... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.

Political, Honor, Politics

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

It is impossible to conceive of many without one.

Impossible

Plato (1926). “Cratylus: Parmenides ; Greater Hippias ; Lesser Hippias”, Loeb Classical Library

Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

Mother, Invention

Plato (2015). “The Republic”, p.75, First Avenue Editions

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.

Mistake, Health, Two

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