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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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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
Source: Dialogues, Theatetus
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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
Subject:
Life
Conflict
War
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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Subject:
Love & Romance
Poetry
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Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
Subject:
Effort
Work
Perseverance
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The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Subject:
Knowledge
Learning
Ignorance
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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Subject:
Freedom
Democracy
Dictatorship
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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
Subject:
Politics
Government
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There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
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Politicians
Power
Nation
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Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
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Justice
Nation
Citizen
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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Subject:
Music
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Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Subject:
Wisdom
Knowledge
Justice
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All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
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Efficiency
Work
Business
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
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Education
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This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
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Community
Citizen
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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
Subject:
Evil
Ignorance
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All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
Subject:
Equality
God
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Subject:
Effort
Work
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Democracy passes into despotism.
Subject:
Democracy
Dictatorship
Cruel
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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
Subject:
Wisdom
Life
Politics
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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
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Appearance & Attitudes
Virtue
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