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Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the minds eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light. - Plato Quotes
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. - Plato Quotes
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. - Plato Quotes
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. - Plato Quotes
Death is not the worst that can happen to men. - Plato Quotes
Everything that deceives may be said to enchant. - Plato Quotes
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. - Plato Quotes
Friends have all things in common. - Plato Quotes
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 Quotes
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. - Plato Quotes
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. - Plato Quotes
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil. - Plato Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it. - Plato Quotes
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? - Plato Quotes
Necessity, who is the mother of invention. - Plato Quotes
Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. - Plato Quotes
Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. - Plato Quotes
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. - Plato Quotes
No human thing is of serious importance. - Plato Quotes
Only the dead have seen the end of war. - Plato Quotes
The beginning is the most important part of the work. - Plato Quotes
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. - Plato Quotes
The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men. - Plato Quotes
The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions. - Plato Quotes
The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. - Plato Quotes
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato Quotes
The soul of man is immortal and imperishable. - Plato Quotes
There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them. - Plato Quotes
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