Plato

Daily quotes from Plato.

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Socrates: As for myself, Lysimachus and Melesias, I am the first to confess that I have never had a teacher of the art of virtue (Laches)

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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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Socrates: The thought that the beautiful is not good pleases me least of all the things we have said (HippiasMajor)

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Athenian Stranger: No government... exercises a voluntary rule over voluntary subjects, but may be truly called states of discord (Laws8)

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

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Socrates: only the philosopher who departs pure is permitted to enter the company of the gods (Phaedo)

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We do not act rightly because we are excellent, in fact we achieve excellence by acting rightly.

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Socrates: And who could take up arms against such a great army having Homer for its general, and not appear ridiculous? (Theaetetus)

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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

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Socrates: either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or there is a change and migration of the soul (Apology)

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Socrates: It is impossible that God should ever be willing to change - every god remains absolutely and for ever in his own form (Republic)

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Socrates: The soul which has never seen the truth will never be re-incarnated into the human form (Republic)

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Socrates:The mass of mankind would not decline to accept a tyranny... or many numerous things which cause more harm than good (Alcibiades2)

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Athenian Stranger: Our ideas of justice are in the highest degree confused and contradictory (Laws9)

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Socrates: Sitting, walking, running, sailing; or, again, wood, stones, and the like - these things are neither good nor evil (Gorgias)

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Socrates: The cause, then, is not the cause of the cause, but of that which comes into being through it (Phaedo)

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Socrates: By the powers, Euthyphro! how little does the common herd know of the nature of right and truth (Euthyphro)

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No man of intelligence will venture to express his philosophical views in language, especially in language that is unchangeable (7thLetter)

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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.