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The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector  (Plato Quotes) The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person’s excessive love of self  (Plato Quotes) He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side  (Plato Quotes) Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state  (Plato Quotes) So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality must survey  (Plato Quotes) I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other  (Plato Quotes) Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up  (Plato Quotes) A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something  (Plato Quotes) Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent  (Plato Quotes) Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others  (Plato Quotes) Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them  (Plato Quotes) Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil  (Plato Quotes) The beginning is the most important part... for that is the time character is being formed  (Plato Quotes) Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any  (Plato Quotes) He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age  (Plato Quotes) Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent  (Plato Quotes) In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak  (Plato Quotes) ... in every man there is an eye of the soul, which... is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen  (Plato Quotes) Of all the things of a man’s soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil  (Plato Quotes) The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above  (Plato Quotes) A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods  (Plato Quotes) The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves  (Plato Quotes) Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power  (Plato Quotes) Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any  (Plato Quotes) Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no desire for that of which he feels no want  (Plato Quotes) It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary  (Plato Quotes) The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds  (Plato Quotes) The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods  (Plato Quotes) The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort  (Plato Quotes) Man’s music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos  (Plato Quotes)
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