Plato — Philosophical Quotes

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Plato Quotes

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Plato

Philosopher

Philosophical

“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.”

Winning Party Office

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Plato

Philosopher

Philosophical

“The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.”

Generations Immortality Everlasting

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Philosophical

“Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake.”

Doe Soul

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Philosophical

“The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union.”

Soul Horse

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Philosophical

“This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.”

Funny Cities Citizens

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Philosophical

“Truth is its own reward.”

Truth Rewards

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Philosophical

“Putting the shoe on the wrong foot.”

Feet Errors

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Philosophical

“The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.”

Thinking Cities Plato

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Philosophical

“Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain.”

Political Passion Luxury

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Philosophical

“What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual, and that when the naturally better element controls the worse then the man is said to be "master of himself", as a term of praise. But when - as a result of bad upbringing or bad company one s better element is overpowered by the numerical superiority of one s worse impulses, then one is criticized for not being master of oneself and for lack of self control.”

Men Mean Character

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Philosophical

“When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.”

May Benefits Often Is

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Philosophical

“It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and ordered movements the appearances concerning the movements of the wandering heavenly bodies could be preserved.”

Science Movement Plato

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