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Plato Quotes

«Necessity, who is the mother of invention.»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | About: Necessity
«Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | About: Tolerance | Keywords: gymnastics
«The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.»
«The rulers of the State are the only ones who should have the privilege of lying, whether at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the State.»
Author: Plato (Philosopher)
«Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | Keywords: hereditary, honors
«Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | About: Poetry | Keywords: nearer, vital
«A man left gold; another took it; left a noose, So the first hanged himself; having but life to lose»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | Keywords: hanged, noose, nooses
«Everything that deceives may be said to enchant»
«Man is a biped without feathers»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | Keywords: biped, feathers
«Perfect wisdom hath four parts: wisdom, the principle of doing things right; justice the principle of doing things equally in public and private; fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it; and temperance, the principle of subdui»