The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
PLATOLet the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.
More Plato Quotes
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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Those who don’t know must learn from those who do.
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
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You should not honor men more than truth.
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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
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If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we’re looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven’t found it.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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