Plato Quotes, Death Quotes, Blessing Quotes

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

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All men, well interrogated, answer well.

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Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.

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The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.

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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.

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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

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All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

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To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.

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To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.

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For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.

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And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.

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Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

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The life which is not examined is not worth living.

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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.

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You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.

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Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

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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.

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... 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.

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It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.

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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

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