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- There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
- The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
- You cannot conceive the many without the one.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Parmenides
- The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Theatetus
- You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Theatetus
- We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- 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 (427 BC - 347 BC)
- Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- There is no such thing as a lover's oath.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
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