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427 BC–347 BC Greece
Plato (Πλάτων Plátōn; c. 427 BC – c. 347 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought and the Academy (Akademia), the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
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Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside.
There is no one who ever acts honestly in the administration of states, nor any helper who will save any one who maintains the cause of the just.
Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.
Then we may begin by assuming that there are three classes of men—lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, lovers of gain?
Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Neither family, nor privilege, nor wealth, nor anything but Love can light that beacon which a man must steer by when he sets out to live the better life.
Nothing taught by force stays in the soul.
All knowledge, when separated from justice and the other virtues, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom.
I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed … from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty.
Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not — let them do their duty, and rest satisfied.
Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.
By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.
Whatever is always in motion is immortal.
At any rate, at his [the God of Love] touch every man becomes a poet "though formerly unvisited by the Muse".
Let parents then bequeath to their children not riches but the spirit of reverence.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Magic consists of, and is acquired by the worship of the gods.
Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this [live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth].
As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.
The beginning is the most important part of any work.
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