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Plato (428 BC - 348 BC) was a prominent Greek philosopher, one of the most influential figures in Western philosophy. He founded the Academy, which was the first institution of higher education in the Western world. Plato's philosophy, centered around the theory of Forms, emphasized the importance of reason and morality.

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Famous Plato Quotes

“We become what we contemplate.”

Author:Plato

“There is no other start to philosophy but wonder.”

Philosophy Wonder

Author:Plato

“The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.”

Children Use Parent Natural Wealth Creation Fortune Sake Profit Affection Makers Love Of Money Natural Love

Book:The Republic

Source: The Republic

“Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.”

Serious Understood Opposites Laughable Serious Things

Book:Laws

Source: Laws

“Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.”

Years Firsts Ends Lasts Education Childhood End Of Life Admonition

Book:Three Dialogues: Protagoras, Philebus, and Gorgias

Source: Three Dialogues: Protagoras, Philebus, and Gorgias

“From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the world order.”

World Soul Whole Body Earth Moving Order Heaven Space Views Source Stones World Order Parcel

Author:Plato

“I would fain grow old learning many things.”

Book:Laches

Source: Laches

“It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.”

Life Is Common Mouths

Author:Plato

“It is right to give every man his due.”

Men Giving Dues Every Man

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“When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.”

May Said Benefits Often Is

Book:Laws

Source: Laws

“The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.”

Author:Plato

“Ignorance: the root of all evil.”

Evil Ignorance Roots

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“If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul - the result is bound to be a complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always breeds.”

Ifs Giving Soul Body Bigs Law Political Sin Results Office Bounds Ships Upset Meals Proportion Sickness Sail Hubris Outburst Unrighteousness

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“Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.”

Virtue Food Cooking Culinary Quantity Peppers

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“No man should be angry with what is true.”

Men Should Angry Who You Are Knowing Who You Are

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“The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.”

Wells Whole Wisdom Healing Wise Health Disease Clever Ignorant Cures Physicians

Author:Plato