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Plato Quotes - Page 38

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Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.

Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.

Moving, Men, Together

Plato (1851). “The Works of Plato: Philebus, Charmides, Laches, Menexenus, Hippias major, Hippias minor, Ion, First Alcibiades, Second Alcibiades, Theages, The rivals, Hipparchus. Minos, Clitopho, The epistles”, p.295

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Truth, Men, Truth Is

Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.249

As a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it issued, so the stream of beauty passes back into its possessor through his eyes, which is its natural route to the soul; arriving there and setting him all aflutter, it waters the passages of the feathers and causes the wings to grow, and fills the soul of the loved one in his turn with love.

Eye, Wind, Wings

Each living creature is said to be alive and to be the same individual - as for example someone is said to be the same person from when he is a child until he comes to be an old man. And yet, if he's called the same, that's despite the fact that he's never made up from the same things, but is always being renewed, and losing what he had before, whether it's hair, or flesh, or bones, or blood, in fact the whole body.

Children, Men, Hair

By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.

Golden, Sun, Influence

Plato, George Burges (1848). “The Works of Plato: The Apology of Socrates, Crito, Phaedo, Gorgias, Protagoras, Phaedrus, Theaetetus, Euthyphron, and Lysis”, p.383

That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in the study of philosophy appear ridiculous when they enter the courts of law as speakers. Those who have knocked about in courts and the like from their youth up seem to me, when compared with those who have been brought up in philosophy and similar pursuits, to be as slaves in breeding compared with freemen.

Plato, Philosophy, Thinking

Plato (1921). “Theaetetus, Sophist”

The good are like one another, and friends to one another; and ... the bad, as is often said of them, are never at unity with one another or with themselves, but are passionate and restless: and that which is at variance and enmity with itself is not likely to be in union or harmony with any other thing.

Unity, Passionate, Enmity

Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.56

I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word.

Lines, States, Built

For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.

Men, Evil, Religion

Plato (1934). “The Laws of Plato”

He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit.

Ignorant, Wit

Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.

Soldier, Important, Done

Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.256, Xist Publishing

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

Pain, Soul, Relief

Plato (2012). “Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic”, p.426, Courier Corporation

You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action - that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one.

Men, Thinking, Life And Death

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

A person who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he or she ought only to consider whether in doing anything he or she is doing right or wrong- acting the part of a good person or a bad person.

Dying, Acting, Chance

Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.

Men, Soul, Next

Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.97, Cosimo, Inc.

Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.

Solitude, Haughtiness, Roof

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 Graces sought some holy ground, Whose sight should ever please; And in their search the soul they found Of Aristophanes.

Holy Ground, Sight, Grace

Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1972). “The Republic”

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