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Medicine
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They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
-Plato
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Men
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
-Plato
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Music
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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
-Plato
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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
-Plato
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Nation, Nationality, Nationalism
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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
-Plato
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Opinion
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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
-Plato
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Parenting
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
-Plato
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Philosophy
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Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.
-Plato
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Planning
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
-Plato
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Pleasure
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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
-Plato
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Poetry
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Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
-Plato
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Politics
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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
-Plato
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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
-Plato
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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.
-Plato
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Professionalism
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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.
-Plato
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Psychology
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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
-Plato
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Reason
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Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information -- never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good -- he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.
-Plato
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Revolution
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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
-Plato
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Rhetoric
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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
-Plato
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Science
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If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.
-Plato
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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
-Plato
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Science is nothing but perception.
-Plato
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Sex
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In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions.
-Plato
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Space
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From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the world order.
-Plato, The Laws
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Storytelling
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We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
-Plato
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Books by and about Plato