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Famous Plato Quotes
“The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.”
“No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul”
“Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world”
“Be kind. Every person you meet is fighting a difficult battle.”
“We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.”
“And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine”
“If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection”
“Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.”
“Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.”
“Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.”
“States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.”
“To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories.”
“The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.”
“To a good man nothing that happens is evil.”
“Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.”
“Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.”