Quotes by Plato

Plato

Greek philosopher

Alive from: 427 BC - 347 BC

Category: Philosophers

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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.
  Source: Phaedrus

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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.
  Source: Phaedrus

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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.