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Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“The Graces sought some holy ground, Whose sight should ever please; And in their search the soul they found Of Aristophanes.”

Should Soul Found Grace Holy Please Sight Holy Ground

Book:The Republic

Source: The Republic

“To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.”

Men Should Wells Has Beens Stills Running Courses Given Virtue Alive Honor Safe Fairs Praise Distinguished Hymns

Author:Plato

“Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.”

Should Wells Important Done Soldier Well Done

Book:The Republic

Source: The Republic

“One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all their splendor many fair fruits of discourse and meditation in a plenteous crop of philosophy.”

World Should May Philosophy Beautiful Form Turns Meditation Ocean Fairs Fruit Contemplation Discourse Crops Splendor

Author:Plato

“The soul should concentrate itself by itself.”

Should Soul

Author:Plato

“If we are to keep our flock at the highest pitch of excellence, there should be as many unions of the best of both sexes, and as few of the inferior as possible, and that only the offspring of the better unions should be kept.”

Ifs Should Sex Highest Unions Excellence Inferiors Flocks Offspring

Author:Plato

“Life should be lived as play.”

Should Play

Author:Plato

“Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.”

Men Should Running Waiting Doors Prison Prisoner Running Away

Book:The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates

Source: The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates

“I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.”

Should Pain Pleasure Virtue Greater Currency Coins

Author:Plato

“But that we shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know; - that is a theme upon which I am ready to fight, in word and deed, to the utmost of my power.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Should Has Beens Use Fighting Knowing Ready Ought Should Have Seeking Deeds Fancy Theme Helpless Idle Should Have Been

Author:Plato

“I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogised, and to make this the foundation, and from these truths to choose the most beautiful things and arrange them in the most elegant way; and I was quite proud to think how well I should speak, because I believed that I knew the truth.”

Thinking Way Should Wells Persons Enough Beautiful Speak Stupid Ought Proud Foundation Beautiful Things Elegant Speak The Truth I Was Stupid

Book:Great dialogues of Plato

Source: Great dialogues of Plato

“If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their beloved, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour; and when fighting at each other's side, although a mere handful, they would overcome the world. For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by all mankind than by his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms? He would be ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this.”

Source: Symposium

“That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.”

Way Should Mind Art Said Understanding Teacher Capacity Sight Method Organs Right Way Simplest Orientation Educator

Author:Plato

“The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.”

Knows Should Long Soul Young Evil Judging Late Should Have Observation Wickedness Be Young Nature Of Evil

Book:The Republic

Source: The Republic

“The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth.”

Source: Laws. Appendix: Lesser Hippias. First Alcibiades. Menexenus. Index of persons and places

“Friends should have all things in common.”

Should Real Common All Things Should Have Real Friends

Book:Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias

Source: Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias

“Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.”

Should Kind Given Math Plato Given Up Arithmetic Best Nature

Book:Education: Ends and Means

Source: Education: Ends and Means

“Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.”

Love Should Done Happens Greatness Becoming Plato Becoming Great

Author:Plato

“We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.”

Should Firsts Children Perfect Fiction Virtue Ought Importance Parenting Esteem Plato Promotion Adapted Perfect Man

Book:The Republic

Source: The Republic

“If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.”