| Name | Plato |
| Born | c. 428–427 BC[1]Athens |
| Died | c. 348–347 BC (age approx 80) Athens |
| Nationality | Greek |
| Main Interests | Rhetoric, Art, Literature, Epistemology, Justice, Virtue, Politics, Education, Family, Militarism |
| Achievement | Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy and science. was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens |
Plato's precious Word
Quote 1: A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
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Quote 2: A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
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Quote 3: All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
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Quote 4: Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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Quote 5: Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
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Quote 6: As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
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Quote 7: At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
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Quote 8: Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
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Quote 9: Courage is a kind of salvation.
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Quote 10: Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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Quote 11: Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.
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Quote 12: Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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Quote 13: Democracy passes into despotism.
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Quote 14: Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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Quote 15: For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
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Quote 16: All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
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Quote 17: All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
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Quote 18: Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
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Quote 19: Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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Quote 20: Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
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Quote 21: He was a wise man who invented beer.
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Quote 22: He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
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Quote 23: He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
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Quote 24: Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
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Quote 25: How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
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Quote 26: Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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Quote 27: I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
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Quote 28: I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
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Quote 29: I shall assume that your silence gives consent.
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Quote 30: If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
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Quote 31: Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
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Quote 32: It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
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Quote 33: It is right to give every man his due.
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Quote 34: Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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Quote 35: Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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Quote 36: Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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Quote 37: Love is a serious mental disease.
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Quote 38: Necessity… the mother of invention.
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Quote 39: No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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Quote 40: No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
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Quote 41: No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
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Quote 42: Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
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Quote 43: One man cannot practice many arts with success.
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Quote 44: One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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Quote 45: Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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Quote 46: Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
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Quote 47: People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
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Quote 48: Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Quote 49: Science is nothing but perception.
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Quote 50: States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
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Quote 51: The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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Quote 52: The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
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Quote 53: The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
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Quote 54: The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
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Quote 55: The gods’ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.
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Quote 56: The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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Quote 57: The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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Quote 58: The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
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Quote 59: There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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Quote 60: There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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Quote 61: There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
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Quote 62: There is no such thing as a lovers’ oath.
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Quote 63: Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
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Quote 64: Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
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Quote 65: Your silence gives consent.
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Quote 66: You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
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Quote 67: Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
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Quote 68: When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
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Quote 69: When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
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Quote 70: Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
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Quote 71: Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
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Quote 72: Life must be lived as play.
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Quote 73: Man – a being in search of meaning.
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Quote 74: We are twice armed if we fight with faith
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