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Quotes By author - Starting with P - Plato
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There are 114 quotes for the author Plato
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Subject:
Wisdom
Speech
Fool
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
Subject:
Hope & Dreams
Life
Death
Work: Dialogues, Apology
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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Subject:
Happiness
Life
Men
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Subject:
Wisdom
Life
Ignorance
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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Subject:
Life
Death
Evil
Work: Dialogues, Apology
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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Wisdom
Men
Honor
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No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
Subject:
Death
Fear
Good
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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Fear
Courage
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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Subject:
Community
Politics
Responsibility
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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
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Ability
Wisdom
Heroes
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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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Life
Anger
Action
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Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
Subject:
Education
Mankind
Ignorance
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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
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Fear
War
Nation
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Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.
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Education
Music
Excercise
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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Action
Laws
Responsibility
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Death is not the worst than can happen to men.
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Death
Men
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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Politics
Government
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
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Children
Parents
Respect
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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
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Character
Men
Nation
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You are so young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as judge of the highest matters.
Subject:
Judgment
Opinions
Youth
Work: Dialogues, Theatetus
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