Plato Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Soul Quotes

It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.

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For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

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The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved; so that he passes a wrong judgment on what is just, good and beautiful, thinking that he ought always to honor what belongs to himself in preference to truth. For he who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself, or by another.

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The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union.

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Your dog is your only philosopher.

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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

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Every unjust man is unjust against his will.

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The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.

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The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.

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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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Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

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Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.

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Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake.

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

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The proud man is forsaken of God.

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To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

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The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.

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Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth.

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If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.

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God ever geometrizes.

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