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Plato quote: "Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety is..."
Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety is that which is not dear to them. Plato
Plato quote: "Must not all things at last be swallowed up in Death?"
Must not all things at last be swallowed up in Death? Plato
Plato quote: "Then we shan’t regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom..."
Then we shan’t regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies… Plato
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. Plato
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal. Plato
Plato quote: "No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself"
No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself Plato
Plato quote: " because it is correct to make a priority of young people,..."
... because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible... Plato
Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this is true, it would be absurd to be eager for nothing but this all their lives, and then to be troubled when that came for which they had all along been eagerly practicing. Plato
Plato quote: "They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth...."
They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE) Plato
Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. Plato
There is a constant suspicion that headache and giddiness are to be ascribed to philosophy, and hence all practising or making trial of virtue in the higher sense is absolutely stopped; for a man is always fancying that he is being made ill, and is in constant anxiety about the state of his body. Plato
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. Plato
Plato quote: "Are not they temperate from a kind of intemperance?"
Are not they temperate from a kind of intemperance? Plato
Plato quote: "Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools,..."
Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something. Plato
Plato quote: "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools..."
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Plato

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