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Quotations by Plato

The 8 quotations by Plato, each linked to the position it expresses.

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A beauty that always is, neither coming to be nor passing away, neither increasing nor diminishing; nor again beautiful in one part and ugly in another.
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Nature herself shows that it is just for the better to have more than the worse, and the more capable than the less.
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Seeking and learning are in fact nothing but recollection.
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The Good is not being, but still beyond being, surpassing it in dignity and power.
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This dwelling is the prison; the light of the fire in it is the sun; and the upward journey is the ascent of the soul into the intelligible region.
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Those who practise philosophy in the right way are in training for dying.
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To them, would not the truth be literally nothing but the shadows of the artificial objects?
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What is that which always is and has no becoming, and what is that which is always becoming and never is?
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