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Plato Quotes - Page 22

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They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

Wisdom, Father, Poetry

We must infer that all things are produced more plentifully and easily and of a better quality when one man does one thing which is natural to him and does it at the right time, and leaves other things.

Work, Men, Quality

Plato (1950). “The Republic”, p.41, Lulu.com

If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

Wise, Perfection, Humanity

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Plato, Men, Deceived Us

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”

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

Mouths, Common, Life Is

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.

Animal, Boys, Reason

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.2716, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

In heaven there is laid up a pattern which he who chooses may behold, and beholding, set his own house in order. The time has now arrived at which they must raise the eye of the soul to the Universal Light which lightens all things. With the eye ever directed toward things fixed and immutable which neither injure nor are injured - these they cannot help imitating. But I quite admit the difficulty of believing that in every man there is an eye of the soul which by the right direction is re-illumined, and is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes.

Believe, Eye, Men

Love consists in feeling the Sacred One beating inside the loved one.

Feelings, Sacred, Loved Ones

May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.

May, Ethics, Should

... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and constitution, who alone have the opportunity to bring it good government and prosperity, become a mere sham, then clearly it is completely ruined.

Opportunity, Government, Law

Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and spirit respectively: he is disciplined when spirit and appetite are in proper subordination to reason. He is just in virtue of the harmony which exists when all three elements of the mind perform their proper function and so achieve their proper fulfillment; he is unjust when no such harmony exists.

Wise, Justice, Brave

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

Through obedience learn to command.

Obedience, Command

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”

The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved; so that he passes a wrong judgment on what is just, good and beautiful, thinking that he ought always to honor what belongs to himself in preference to truth. For he who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself, or by another.

Beautiful, Men, Thinking

Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them.

Plato, Lying, Men

Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.223, Penguin

Those who have knowledge are more confident than those who have no knowledge, and they are more confident after they have learned than before.

Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.67, Penguin

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

Plato, Philosophical, Exercise

Republic III.405.D

Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.

Children, Men, Drunk

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Peace, War, Heart

Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

Difficult, Geometry, Prove

The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Inspirational, Philosophical, Knowledge

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”

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Education, Constitution, Nurture

Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.11, University Press of America

Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.

Agreement, Symphony, Harmony

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.905, e-artnow

Art has no end but its own perfection.

Art, Perfection, Ends

Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.6231, Delphi Classics

The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.

Education, Real, School

Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.154

If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange.

People, Strange, Moderation

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