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Plato Quotes

«The music masters familiarizes children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole o»
«The passionate are like men standing on their heads; they see all things the wrong way»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | About: Passion | Keywords: heads, passionate, standing
«Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of the understanding»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | About: Atheism | Keywords: atheism, disease, error
«Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom.»
Author: Plato (Philosopher)
«They certainly give very strange names to diseases.»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | Keywords: diseases
«Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information / never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good / he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.»
«The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | Keywords: content, seeking, virtuous
«The first and best victory is to conquer self; to be conquered by self is of all things most shameful and vile.»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | About: Victory | Keywords: conquer, conquered, shameful, vile, viler, vilest
«Even the gods love jokes»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | About: Humor, Jokes | Keywords: jokes, the gods
«Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike»