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Time is the moving image of eternity. — Plato

There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil. — Plato

Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself — Plato

One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison. — Plato

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth. — Plato

Thinking is the soul talking to itself. — Plato

Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus. — Joseph Joubert

I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke. — Dana Plato

No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated. — Plato

Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger. — Plato

Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year. — Plato

Happiness springs from doing good and helping others. — Plato

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. — Plato

Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule. — Plato

The idea of Plato that philosophers must be the rulers and directors of society is practiced in India. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it. PLATO, GORGIAS — Julie Garwood

My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games. — Patti Smith

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much. — Robert McKee

More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else. — Plato

This and no other is the root from
which a tyrant springs; when he
first appears he is a protector. — Plato

Your silence gives consent. — Plato

longest of his works — Plato

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. — Plato

Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God? — Plato

All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance — Plato

Nowadays we would perhaps call Plato's state totalitarian. — Jostein Gaarder

The first and best victory is to conquer self — Plato

We become what we contemplate. — Plato

The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole. — Plato

So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic. — Plato

If the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul. — Plato

Oh, if Plato could see me now ! Aristotle, traveler of time! — James Dashner

I will prove by my life that my critics are liars. — Plato

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction. — Plato

To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base. — Plato

A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike! — Plato

Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit. — Plato

Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him? — Plato

The evil never attains to any real friendship, either with good or evil. — Plato

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants. — Plato

That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness. — Plato

Plato, in his opinion, had committed too much to love. — Mary Renault

Plato is never sullen, Cervantes is never petulant, Demosthenes never comes unseasonably, Dante never stays too long. — Nathaniel Parker

Intolerance is the natural concomitant of strong faith; tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous. Plato — Will Durant

Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend. — Aristotle.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell. — Plato

As Plato said, Be kind to everyone you meet, for we are all fighting a fierce battle. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Education is cumulative, and it affects the breed. - Plato — Louis Cozolino

What did Plato say?" "He said, 'It is only the dead who have seen the end of war.'" "And — Elizabeth Hunter

He is divine
but then I call all philosophers that. — Plato

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it. — Plato

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick? — Plato

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master. — Plato

Wisest is he who knows what he does not know. — Plato

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it. — Plato

The atomists , unlike Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause. — Bertrand Russell

Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful. — Plato

[T]hose who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men. — Plato

By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land. — Libby Houston

The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort. — Plato

There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them. — Plato

I say that justice is nothing other than the advantage of [c] the stronger. — Plato

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. — Plato

A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim. — Plato

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. — Plato

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy. — Plato

Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any. — Plato

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea. — Plato

Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself. — Plato

All is flux, nothing stays still — Plato

Plato has told you a truth; but Plato is dead. — G.K. Chesterton

That not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued. — Plato

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

He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side. — Plato

The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self. — Plato

Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato. — Moses Finley

Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil. — Plato

There is no such thing as a lover's oath. — Plato

In every man there is an eye of the soul, which ... is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen. — Plato

When a man is out of his depth, whether he has fallen into a little swimming-bath or into mid-ocean, he has to swim all the same. — Plato

No reproach for a person willing to give honorable service in the passion to become wise. — Plato

I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Those who govern ought not to be lovers of the task? For, if they are, there will be rival lovers, and they will fight. — Plato

Marx is like Plato, he has dreams that can't come true as long as people are people. — Jo Walton

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute. — Rebecca Goldstein

Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination. — Plato

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. — Plato

Now, in my opinion, the procession of the native inhabitants was fine; — Plato

The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of indulgence is the shooting of a fresh bolt. — Plato

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
- Plato — Sienna Wilder

May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me. — Plato

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. — Plato

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul. — Plato

If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. — Plato

You can't do good if you don't feel good. — Plato

Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul — Plato