All Plato Quotes
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
Plato
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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
Plato
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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Plato
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He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
Plato
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
Plato
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A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
Plato
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To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
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The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
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