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Plato Quotes - Page 28

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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons hiom.

Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons hiom.

Life, Running, Men

Plato (2012). “Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic”, p.39, Courier Corporation

Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

Soul, Kind, Virtue

Plato (1849). “The Works of Plato: The Republic, Timaeus, and Critias”, p.130

The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole of life.

Children, Mind, Essentials

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

Children, Philosophical, Men

Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.28, Cosimo, Inc.

These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.

Plato, Democracy, Equal

The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

Knowledge, Science, Sake

Plato, John Llewelyn DAVIES, David James VAUGHAN (1866). “The Republic of Plato, translated into English, with an introduction, analysis, and notes. By J. Ll. Davies and D. J. Vaughan”, p.251

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war

Peace, War, Tyrants

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

Book, Son, Immortal

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Suffering, Injustice, Censure

I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.

Men, Thinking, Better Man

Plato (2002). “Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo”, p.35, Hackett Publishing

And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.

Love Is, Order, Essence

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

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

Plato, Pregnancy, Philosophical

Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.

Philosophy, Philosopher, Affection

Plato, Henry Cary, Rev. Henry Davis (M.A.), George Burges (1848). “The Works of Plato: The Apology of Socrates, Crito, Phaedo, Gorgias, Protagoras, Phaedrus, Theaetetus, Euthyphron, and Lysis”, p.385

The best stomachs are not those which reject all foods.

Rejects

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

Truth, Honesty, Plato

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

The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.

Art, Mean, Men

Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?

Greed, Democracy, Excess

Plato (1963). “The Republic”

And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are unpoetical, or unattractive to the popular ear, but because the greater the poetical charm in them, the less are they meet for the ears of boys and men who are meant to be free, and who should fear slavery more than death.

Plato, Boys, Men

Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.269, Xist Publishing

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

Spiritual, Men, Evil

Plato (2015). “The Republic”, p.72, First Avenue Editions

Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.

Running, Men, Doors

Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.191, Cosimo, Inc.

Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.

Human Nature

Plato (2013). “Dialogues of Plato”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.

Children, Men, Old Man

The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

Plato, Knowledge, Math

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

Plato, Math, Amusing

Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness.

Rust, Brightness, Diligence

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