Plato

Daily quotes from Plato.

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Athenian Stranger: Man never legislates - accidents legislate for us. In human affairs chance is almost everything (Laws)

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Sophocles: Most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master (Republic)

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Er: Virtue is free, and as a man honours or dishonours her he will have more or less of her (Republic)

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Zeno: Socrates, you are as keen as a Spartan hound in pursuing the track (Parmenides)

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Alcibiades: He who has suffered is willing to talk to his fellow-sufferers only, as they alone will be likely to understand him (Symposium)

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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, & what they cannot.

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Socrates: Lovers praise you in a wrong way; because they are afraid of offending you, and their judgment is weakened by passion (Phaedrus)

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Lysimachus: I am delighted to hear, Socrates, that you maintain the name of your father, who was a most excellent man (Laches)

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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

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Socrates: Men are only agreed to a certain extent about justice, and then they begin to disagree (Cratylus)

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Eleatic Stranger: Deformity is nothing but the want of measure, and the want of measure is always unsightly (Sophist)

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Socrates: Those escape the smoke which is the slavery of freemen, might easily fall into the fire which is the tyranny of slaves (Republic)

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Diotima: Conception and generation are an immortal principle in the mortal creature (Symposium)

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

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Socrates: We are inferior to our ancestors in the derivation of our birth and in nearly all other particulars (Alcibiades)

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Socrates: If a physician and cook had to enter into a competition about food judged by children, the physician would starve (Gorgias)

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Socrates: We cannot, truly call those men "divine" who, having no understanding, yet succeed in many a grand deed and word (Meno)