All Plato Quotes
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
Plato
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Plato
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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
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And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
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He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
Plato
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This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
Plato
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Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
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