Plato Quotes, Truth Quotes, Mean Quotes

Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all these were in a state devoid of reason or measure, but when the work of setting in order this Universe was being undertaken, fire and water and earth and air, although possessing some traces of their known nature, were yet disposed as everything is likely to be in the absence of God; and inasmuch as this was then their natural condition, God began by first marking them out into shapes by means of forms and numbers.

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People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.

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A work well begun is half-ended.

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Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.

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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.

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And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?

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The life which is not examined is not worth living.

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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

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And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.

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For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless he knows what he means?

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Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

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I should not like to say ... that any kind of knowledge is not to be learned; for all knowledge appears to be a good.

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Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.

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Love is a great spirit. Everything spiritual is in between god and mortal.

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I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

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Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure.

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The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

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...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.

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We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

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I prefer nothing, unless it is true.

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