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The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken (Plato Quotes)
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest... and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war (Plato Quotes)
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds (Plato Quotes)
What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent? (Plato Quotes)
Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends (Plato Quotes)
And a democracy, I suppose, comes into being when the poor, winning the victory, put to death some of the other party, drive out others, and grant the rest of the citizens an equal share in both citizenship and offices (Plato Quotes)
A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike! (Plato Quotes)
... the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth (Plato Quotes)
Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself (Plato Quotes)
Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit (Plato Quotes)
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 Quotes)
A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader (Plato Quotes)
The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don’t know... How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what’s its own and what’s alien (Plato Quotes)
The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods. More than any other thing that pertains to the body it partakes of the nature of the divine (Plato Quotes)
What a handsome face he had: but if he were naked you would forget he had a face, he is so beautiful in every way (Plato Quotes)
Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed (Plato Quotes)
I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it (Plato Quotes)
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 (Plato Quotes)
That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman (Plato Quotes)
... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole (Plato Quotes)
... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may be, as the surest way to make them behave humanely to each other and the subjects in their charge (Plato Quotes)
And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well (Plato Quotes)
... that in our state one man was to do one job, and the job he was naturally most suited for.. And further, we have often heard and often said that justice consists of minding your own business and not interfering with other people (Plato Quotes)
Interference by the three classes with each other s jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to our state, and we are entirely justified in calling it the worst of evils (Plato Quotes)
Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity? (Plato Quotes)
The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge (Plato Quotes)
... there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone (Plato Quotes)
Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood’s school, and the one man that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool (Plato Quotes)
Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained (Plato Quotes)
Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it (Plato Quotes)