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Plato Quotes & Sayings

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
- Plato

Democracy passes into despotism.
- Plato

Poetry and philosophy are always hostile to each other.
- Plato

The greatest penalty of evildoing is to grow into the likeness of bad men.
- Plato

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
- Plato

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
- Plato

I shall assume that your silence gives consent
- Plato

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

You can learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
- Plato

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.
- Plato

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