Tag: Plato

The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.

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The people have always 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.

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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

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The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

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The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. . .Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.

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There are three arts which are concerned with all things one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

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There is no such thing as a lover’s oath.

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They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

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Thinking The talking of the soul with itself.

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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

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