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Plato

Read through the most famous quotes from Plato




Love is a serious mental disease.


— Plato


#love #love is #mental #serious

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.


— Plato


#politics #political

good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws


— Plato


#people #acting

There is truth in wine and children


— Plato


#children

The measure of a man is what he does with power.


— Plato


#man #measure #measure of a man #power

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.


— Plato


#education

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.


— Plato


#politics #state

You should not honor men more than truth.


— Plato


#honor #secrecy #truth #men

Courage is knowing what not to fear.


— Plato


#fear #knowing

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.


— Plato


#music #state #change






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Plato is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. Plato's mother was Perictione whose family boasted of a relationship with the famous Athenian lawmaker and lyric poet Solon. Then at twenty-eight Hermodorus says [Plato] went to Euclides in Megara.

Plato is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. In the words of A.

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