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Topics: Plato Quotes

The graces once made up their mind - A shrine inviolate to find: And thus...

The graces once made up their mind - A shrine inviolate to find: And thus...

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

The good is the beautiful.

The good is the beautiful.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be...

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be...

Science is nothing but perception.

Science is nothing but perception.

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are...

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are...

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people...

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people...

The wisest have the most authority

The wisest have the most authority

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a...

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a...

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Love is a serious mental disease.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Philosophy is the highest music.

Philosophy is the highest music.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a...

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a...

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it...

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it...

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.