Plato Quotes!

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The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. -Plato.
Topic: Age
Source: None        

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell.
Topic: Body
Source: None        

Of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.
Topic: Boys
Source: None        

He who is of a 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.
Topic: Burden
Source: None        

Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.
Topic: Cities
Source: Works (vol. III, The Phaedrus)        

Science is nothing but perception.
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
Source: None        

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.
Topic: Education
Source: None        

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
Topic: Excess
Source: None        

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
Topic: Faith
Source: None        

Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Topic: Fools
Source: None        

The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Topic: Government
Source: None        

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
Topic: Harmony
Source: None        

By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.
Topic: Influence
Source: in Kircher's "Magnes Sive de Arte Magnetica"        

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
Topic: Misfortune
Source: None        

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
Topic: Names
Source: None        

Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
Topic: Poetry
Source: None        

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Topic: Politics
Source: None        

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Topic: Politics / Government
Source: None        

It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.
Topic: Punishment
Source: None        

The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking up and round the prospect wide, When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried.
Topic: Sculpture
Source: in "Greek Anthology"        

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
Topic: Wealth
Source: None        

Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.
Topic: Wonders
Source: Theoetetus (XXXII), (Cary's translation)        

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
Topic: Worry
Source: None

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