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Plato Quotes - Page 5

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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Funny, Life, Sarcastic

Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.

Change, Perspective, Becoming

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Death, Memorial Day, Plato

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Life, Death, Wisdom

According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.

Two, Greek, Half

In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.

Mean, Men, Order

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

Pick Me Up, Victory, Development And Growth

We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know, rather than if we believe that it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that we must not look for it.

Believe, Men, Doe

Plato, John M. Cooper, D. S. Hutchinson (1997). “Complete Works”, p.886, Hackett Publishing

The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.

Reality, Political, Words Of Wisdom

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

True friendship can exist only between equals.

True Friend, True Friendship

No one ever dies an atheist.

Atheist, Atheism, Dies

A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers.

Teacher, Honor, Degrees

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

Inspirational, Life, Plato

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”

Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.

Soul, Universal Truth, Universal

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

Country, Thinking, Wish

Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you will with them

Inspiration, Can Do

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Love, Wisdom, Plato

The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Ideas are the source of all things

Ideas, Source, All Things

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Life, Education, Teaching

Plato, Francis Bacon, Ignatius Donnelly, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, William Scott-Elliot (2016). “THE ATLANTIS COLLECTION - 6 Books About The Mythical Lost World: Plato’s Original Myth + The Lost Continent + The Story of Atlantis + The Antedeluvian World + New Atlantis: The Myth & The Theories”, p.114, e-artnow

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Plato, Men, Discipline

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

Lying, Eye, Beholder

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Philosophical, Historical, Democracy

Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.448, Xist Publishing

Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.

Life And Love, Power, Confined

A house that has a library in it has a soul.

Healing, Thought Provoking, House

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