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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/5742/">Quotes by <em>Plato</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Plato (ca. May 21? 427 BC ca. 347 BC) was an immensely influential classical Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden."

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"Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many."

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"Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment."

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"Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike."

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"These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not."

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"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty."

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"Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?"

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"The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery."

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"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."

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"Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind."

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