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Plato Quotes

«You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | About: Discovery, Play | Keywords: conversation, discover, hour, year
«I have good hope that there is something after death.»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | Keywords: after death, Good Hope
«He was a wise man who invented beer.»
«Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.»
«The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.»
«Pleasure is the bait of sin»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | About: Pleasure, Sin | Keywords: bait, baited, baiting, baits
«Books are immortal sons deifying their sires»
«The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | About: Children, Education | Keywords: effective, lovelier, lovely
«Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | About: Law and lawyers, People | Keywords: responsibly
«Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | About: Excess | Keywords: reaction, seasons

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