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Plato quotes

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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity? I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly. Plato
Plato quote: "Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend..."
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity Plato
And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man –whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyze the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation. Plato
But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I... Plato
Plato quote: "Friends have all things in common."
Friends have all things in common. Plato
....I am inclined to think that these muscles and bones of mine would have gone off long ago to Megara or Boeotia—by the dog they would, if they had been moved only by their own idea of what was best. (tr Jowett) Plato
Plato quote: "The good is the beautiful."
The good is the beautiful. Plato
Plato quote: "Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder"
Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder Plato
To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat. Plato
[there are] two kinds of things the nature of which it would be quite wonderful to grasp by means of a systematic art...the first consists in seeing together things that are scattered about everywhere and collecting them into one kind, so that by defining each thing we can make clear the subject of any instruction we wish to give...[the second], in turn, is to be able to cut up each kind according to its species along its natural joints, and to try not to splinter any part, as a bad butcher... Plato
Plato is widely believed to have been a student of Socrates and to have been deeply influenced by his teacher's unjust death. Plato's brilliance as a writer and thinker can be witnessed by reading his Socratic dialogues. Some of the dialogues, letters, and other works that are ascribed to him are considered spurious Plato
A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognise that the same thing happens to the soul. Plato
Plato quote: "The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered..."
The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and vile. Plato
Plato quote: "The first and best victory is to conquer self"
The first and best victory is to conquer self Plato
Plato quote: "No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling..."
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. Plato

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