Well, you know what happens to lovers: whenever they see a lyre, a garment or anything else that their beloved is accustomed to use, they know the lyre, and the image of the boy to whom it belongs comes into their mind.
PlatoWhenever someone, on seeing something, realizes that that which he now sees wants to be like some other reality but falls short and cannot be like that other since it is inferior, do we agree that one who thinks this must have prior knowledge of that to which he says it is like, but deficiently so?
PlatoTrue opinions are a fine thing and do all sorts of good so long as they stay in their place; but they will not stay long. They run away from a man's mind, so they are not worth much until you tether them by working out the reason. Once they are tied down, they become knowledge, and are stable.
Platothe only thing he ought to consider, if he does anything, is whether he does right or wrong, whether it is what a good man does or a bad man
PlatoHonesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
PlatoThe soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
PlatoWhen there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
Plato…it’s better in fact to be guilty of manslaughter than of fraud about what is fair and just.
PlatoThe man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and with the comfort of old age.
PlatoTags: mistakes
Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned.
PlatoTags: knowledge
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