Plato Quotes, Ambition Quotes, Character Quotes

One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on.

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What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

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Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness.

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All knowledge is but remembrance.

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Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other? If you weigh pleasures against pleasures, you of course take the more and greater; or if you weigh pains against pains, then you choose that course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by the near or the near by the distant; and you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful.

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Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

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So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

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All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

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Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this [live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth].

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All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.

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A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.

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Those who tell the stories rule society.

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A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants

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Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.

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Love is a serious mental disease.

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Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.

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We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.

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Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.

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Truth is its own reward.

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