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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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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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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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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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Death is not the worst than can happen to men.
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Death
Men
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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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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
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Character
Men
Nation
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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.
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Life
Conflict
War
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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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