The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
Subject:
Immortality
Work: The Republic
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Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.
Subject:
Laws
Work:
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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Subject:
Politics
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The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
Subject:
Life
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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Subject:
Death
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Courage is a kind of salvation.
Subject:
Courage
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Man - a being in search of meaning.
Subject:
Mankind
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Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
Subject:
Mankind
Justice
Work: The Republic
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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
Subject:
Money
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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
Subject:
Mind
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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Subject:
Mathematics
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It is right to give every man his due.
Subject:
Just
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There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.
Subject:
Art
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The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.
Subject:
Evil
Work: Dialogues, Theatetus
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Science is nothing but perception.
Subject:
Science
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The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.
Subject:
Justice
Work: Dialogues, Phaedo
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How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
Subject:
Philosophical
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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
Subject:
Politics
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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.
Subject:
Age
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The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
Subject:
Education
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