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“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”
-- Plato
#Plato #Desire #Flow
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“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
-- Plato
#Politics #Ends #Penalties
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“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”
-- Plato
#Truth #Evil #Soul
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“If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.”
-- Plato
#Government #Fool #Affair
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“A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.”
-- Plato
#Business #Numbers #Decision
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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.”
-- Plato
#Plato #Cities #Physicians
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“How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?”
-- Plato
#Inspirational #Dream #Sleep
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“Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.”
-- Plato
#Plato #Evil #Aim
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“Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul”
-- Plato
#Dance #Soul #Secret
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“Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.”
-- Plato
#Plato
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“The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has in fact been followed throughout, the principle of one man one job, of minding one s own business , in the sense of doing the job for which one is naturally fitted and not interfering with other people.”
-- Plato
#Jobs #Men #People
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“The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.”
-- Plato
#Men #Perfect #Soul
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“The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.”
-- Plato
#Men #Soul #Immortal
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“When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.”
-- Plato
#Men #Animal #Faces
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“Self conquest is the greatest of victories.”
-- Plato
#Plato #Self #Victory
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“By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.”
-- Plato
#Mean #Men #Names
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“We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.”
-- Plato
#Wise #Plato #Heaven
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“Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.”
-- Plato
#Atheist #Errors #Soul
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“Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.”
-- Plato
#Love Is #Desire #World
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“Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and spirit respectively: he is disciplined when spirit and appetite are in proper subordination to reason. He is just in virtue of the harmony which exists when all three elements of the mind perform their proper function and so achieve their proper fulfillment; he is unjust when no such harmony exists.”
-- Plato
#Wise #Justice #Brave
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“Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.”
-- Plato
#Death #Night #Men
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“Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.”
-- Plato
#Play #Community #Citizens
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“Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.”
-- Plato
#Plato #Honor #Treasure
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“No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.”
-- Plato
#Plato #Speak #Speak The Truth
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“To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.”
-- Plato
#Victory #Defeat #Conquer
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“Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.”
-- Plato
#Depression #Class #Construction
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“Geometry existed before creation.”
-- Plato
#Math #Creation #Geometry
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“There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.”
-- Plato
#Men #Hands #Victory
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“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.”
-- Plato
#Teacher #Men #Determine
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“Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.”
-- Plato
#Men #Order #Law
