10 Great Plato Quotes - Part 4

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The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and with the comfort of old age.

That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.

Ideas are the source of all things.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

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10 Great Plato quotes - Part 3

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent",
in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly.

An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.

I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.

There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

The first and best victory is to conquer self.


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