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Quotes by Plato

Plato

The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

A boy is of all wild beasts the most difficult to manage.

Of all animals the boy is the most unmanageable.

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

Self-conquest is the greatest of victories.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

All learning has an emotional base.

Excellent things are rare.

To be is to do.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself and not upon other men has adopted the very best plan for living happily.

Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

Love - a grave mental disease.

There are three classes of men-lovers of wisdom lovers of honour lovers of gain.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.