Plato Quotes About Life
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
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Self conquest is the greatest of victories.
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
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The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.
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As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.
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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons hiom.
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Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods.
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For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.
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The life which is not examined is not worth living.
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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
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Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.
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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
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Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
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The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one ... Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.
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