Quotes by Plato
Quotes 1 till 15 of 98.
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Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
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Even the gods love jokes.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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First appearance deceives many.
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All learning has an emotional base.
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All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
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An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.
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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.
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They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
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A well begun is half ended.
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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.
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Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.
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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
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