Plato Quotes About Truth
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Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
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Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all these were in a state devoid of reason or measure, but when the work of setting in order this Universe was being undertaken, fire and water and earth and air, although possessing some traces of their known nature, were yet disposed as everything is likely to be in the absence of God; and inasmuch as this was then their natural condition, God began by first marking them out into shapes by means of forms and numbers.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
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What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.
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Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.
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You should not honor men more than truth.
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All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.
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Truth is its own reward.
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The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.
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Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.
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God is truth and light his shadow.
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