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Plato Facts
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Plato was a philosopher in Classical Greece. He was also a mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy and science. In the words of A. N. Whitehead: (427 BC – 347 BC) |
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Quotes by Plato
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Consider further, most foolish Socrates, that the just is always a loser in comparison with the unjust.
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Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
Plato
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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
Plato
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For he who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
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God plants guilt among men when he desires utterly to destroy a house.
Plato
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
Plato
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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
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It is just to do good to our friends when they are good and harm to our enemies when they are evil?
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Justice is an art of theft; to be practised however `for the good of friends and for the harm of enemies,'
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Necessity... the mother of invention.
Plato
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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato
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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
Plato
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Science is nothing but perception.
Plato
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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
Plato
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the gods apportion calamity and misery to many good men, and good
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Then he who is a good keeper of anything is also a good thief?
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Then justice is not good for much.
Plato
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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Plato
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They say also that honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
Plato
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This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
Plato
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This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Plato
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato
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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.
Plato
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Plato
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