Plato
Plato
Platowas a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. He is widely considered the most pivotal figure in the development of philosophy, especially the Western tradition. Unlike nearly all of his philosophical contemporaries, Plato's entire œuvre is believed to have survived intact for over 2,400 years...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPhilosopher
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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
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There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
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We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
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The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
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Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.
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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
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Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.
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The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.
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I shall assume that your silence gives consent.