To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.
Plato
.. When he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for him to give birth not to images of virtue (because he's in touch with no images), but to true virtue [arete] (because he is in touch with true Beauty). The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.
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How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.
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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
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One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety is that which is not dear to them.
"Who are the true philosophers you have in mind?" he asked. "Sightseers of the truth" I answered. "That must be right, but what exactly does it mean?" he asked.
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For philosophy, Socrates, if pursued in moderation and at the proper age, is an elegant accomplishment, but too much philosophy is the ruin of human life.
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.
Of course, he said, he who is of a certain nature, is like those who areof a certain nature; he who is not, not.
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[T]hose who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.
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?Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.
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All the same, we ought to point out that if the kinds of poetry and representation which are designed merely to give pleasure can come up with a rational argument for their inclusion in a well-governed community, we'd be delighted -- short of compromising the truth as we see it, which wouldn't be right -- to bring them back from exile: after all, we know from our own experience all about their spell. I mean haven't ever fallen under the spell of poetry, Glaucon, especially when the spectacle is provided by Homer?
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