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And if the truth of all things that are is always in our soul, then the soul must be immortal, so you should take courage and whatever you do not happen to know, that is to remember, at present, you must endeavour to discover and recollect...I cannot swear to everything I have said in this argument? but one thing I am ready to fight for in word and deed, that we shall be better, braver and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we do not know, than if we think we cannot... Plato
For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world. Plato
Plato quote: "A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. Plato
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. Plato
Plato quote: "Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences."
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences. Plato
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands. Plato
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. Plato
Plato quote: "Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy."
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy. Plato
Plato quote: "Of course, he said, he who is of a certain nature, is like..."
Of course, he said, he who is of a certain nature, is like those who areof a certain nature; he who is not, not. Plato
It's not at all uncommon to find a person's desires compelling him to go against his reason, and to see him cursing himself and venting his passion on the source of the compulsion within him. It's as if there were two warring factions, with passion fighting on the side of reason. But I'm sure you won't claim that you had ever, in yourself or in anyone else, met a case of passion siding with his desires against the rational mind, when the rational mind prohibits resistance. Plato
Plato quote: "Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being"
Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being Plato
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? Plato
Plato quote: "Education is teaching our children to desire the right things."
Education is teaching our children to desire the right things. Plato
the only thing he ought to consider, if he does anything, is whether he does right or wrong, whether it is what a good man does or a bad man Plato
For the fact is thatneither the grammarian nor any other person of skill ever makes a mistakein so far as he is what his name implies; they none of them err unlesstheir skill fails them, and then they cease to be skilled artists. Noartist or sage or ruler errs at the time when he is what his name implies; though he is commonly said to err. Plato

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