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The popular notion is that there were financial considerations as to why he did what he did, and I'm not here to disabuse you of that,


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The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we ...
PLATO At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
PLATO Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
PLATO To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
PLATO The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
PLATO When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
PLATO Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.
PLATO A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us ...
PLATO If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
PLATO Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
PLATO Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
PLATO Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they...
PLATO The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at hom...
PLATO One man cannot practice many arts with success.
PLATO Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustic...
PLATO Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all ...
PLATO Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
PLATO The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of ...
PLATO Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
PLATO Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of ...
PLATO No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
PLATO Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest goo...
PLATO Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only wha...
PLATO Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
PLATO Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
PLATO Knowledge is true opinion.
PLATO Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
PLATO To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and wo...
PLATO There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
PLATO Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
PLATO Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
PLATO Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
PLATO Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
PLATO It is right to give every man his due.
PLATO Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slaver...
PLATO When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to ...
PLATO I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they ca...
PLATO Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
PLATO All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourse...
PLATO No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compu...
PLATO I would fain grow old learning many things.
PLATO Science is nothing but perception.
PLATO It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
PLATO The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
PLATO He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
PLATO As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
PLATO We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
PLATO Democracy passes into despotism.
PLATO No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature...
PLATO Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
PLATO Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
PLATO Philosophy begins in wonder.
PLATO The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
PLATO Courage is a kind of salvation.
PLATO And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
PLATO There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats ...
PLATO The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
PLATO To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evil...
PLATO The good is the beautiful.
PLATO To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
PLATO Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
PLATO The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
PLATO Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the l...
PLATO Man - a being in search of meaning.
PLATO Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
PLATO For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
PLATO The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
PLATO Love is a serious mental disease.
PLATO This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
PLATO Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
PLATO Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
PLATO He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opp...
PLATO When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
PLATO All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
PLATO Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
PLATO Life must be lived as play.
PLATO Necessity... the mother of invention.
PLATO He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
PLATO There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
PLATO Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and ...
PLATO Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
PLATO The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
PLATO If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
PLATO The measure of a man is what he does with power.
PLATO People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt yo...
PLATO That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have s...
PLATO One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by ...
PLATO Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
PLATO Man is a being in search of meaning.
PLATO If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual as...
PLATO Truth is its own reward.
PLATO They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
PLATO They are all parts of time, and the past and future are created species of time, which we unconsciou...
PLATO Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
PLATO Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself.
PLATO For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who ha...
PLATO He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an o...
PLATO Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have es...
PLATO A well begun is half ended.
PLATO The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourse...
PLATO In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a ...
PLATO Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly ...
PLATO Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.
PLATO Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and ...
PLATO The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the go...
PLATO We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
PLATO Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compuls...
PLATO if someone got to see the Beautiful itself, absolute, pure, unmixed, not polluted by human flesh or ...
PLATO if someone got to see the Beautiful itself, absolute, pure, unmixed, not polluted by human flesh or ...
PLATO Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their mind...
PLATO Only the dead have seen the end of war.
PLATO Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
PLATO They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
PLATO States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
PLATO Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
PLATO The beginning is the most important part of the work.
PLATO Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with ...
PLATO Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.
PLATO Even the gods love jokes.
PLATO All learning has an emotional base.
PLATO Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, f...
PLATO The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
PLATO He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
PLATO Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
PLATO Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.
PLATO Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled t...
PLATO There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledg...
PLATO Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich...
PLATO The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
PLATO I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than ev...
PLATO Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
PLATO Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is ...
PLATO Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of e...
PLATO These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeabl...
PLATO Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
PLATO To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either ...
PLATO We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like Go...
PLATO Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
PLATO Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what...
PLATO Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
PLATO The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the...
PLATO In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely ...
PLATO The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time d...
PLATO Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in ...
PLATO I have good hope that there is something after death.
PLATO When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
PLATO The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
PLATO Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simpl...
PLATO In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel a...
PLATO Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable
PLATO Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber...
PLATO The wisest have the most authority
PLATO Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another
PLATO The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
PLATO The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking u...
PLATO I guess when your heart gets broken you sort of start to see cracks in everything. I'm convinced tha...
PLATO Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
PLATO Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in ...
PLATO This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
PLATO The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the go...
PLATO Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul
PLATO The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics
PLATO Homosexuality, is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic government...
PLATO The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. -Plato.
PLATO Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in ...
PLATO Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of o...
PLATO No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
PLATO If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
PLATO I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best p...
PLATO To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.
PLATO Even the gods love jokes
PLATO From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones,...
PLATO Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
PLATO Abstinence is the surety of temperance
PLATO Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away ... A man should wait...
PLATO The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
PLATO I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
PLATO Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and ...
PLATO False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
PLATO Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under co...
PLATO You should not honor men more than truth.
PLATO The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
PLATO Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of d...
PLATO For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since sty...
PLATO The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, h...
PLATO A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might ...
PLATO Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
PLATO All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man w...
PLATO Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but ...
PLATO Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; t...
PLATO He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
PLATO We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should ...
PLATO There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
PLATO Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way aroun...
PLATO Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
PLATO It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it ...
PLATO Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
PLATO When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of in...
PLATO Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
PLATO Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort o...
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