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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

Plato

Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.

Plato

Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors

Plato

Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.

Plato

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

Plato

Man is a biped without feathers.

Plato

What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.

Plato

It is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

Plato

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Plato

All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.

Plato

If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

Plato

There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

Plato

You cannot go into the same water twice.

Plato

The man who hath music in his soul will be most in love with the loveliest.

Plato

Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?

Plato

One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all their splendor many fair fruits of discourse and meditation in a plenteous crop of philosophy.

Plato

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

Plato

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

Plato

Life should be lived as play.

Plato

If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.

Plato

I have good hope that there is something after death.

Plato

The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.

Plato

As the government is, such will be the man.

Plato

Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?

Plato

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Plato

The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

Plato

The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.

Plato

You must base the Wisdom on Love.

Plato

There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric... But he, who, not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art - he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man is nowhere at all when he enters into rivalry with the madman.

Plato

Observe that open loves are held to be more honourable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest, even if their persons are less beautiful than others, is especially honourable.

Plato

Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.

Plato

Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world

Plato

It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice.

Plato

What a handsome face he had: but if he were naked you would forget he had a face, he is so beautiful in every way.

Plato

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

Plato

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Plato

The ultimate design of the Mysteries ... was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, ... a perfect enjoyment of intellectual [spiritual] good.

Plato

Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.

Plato

Love consists in feeling the Sacred One beating inside the loved one.

Plato

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

Plato

Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay

Plato

As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.

Plato

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.

Plato

All knowledge is but remembrance.

Plato

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

Plato

The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.

Plato

People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.

Plato
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