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  • He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Art Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • All soul is immortal. For that which is always in movement is immortal; that which moves something else, and is moved by something else, in ceasing from movement ceases from living. So only that which moves itself, because it does not abandon itself, never stops moving. But it is also source and first principle of movement for the other things which move.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Moving Quotes , Soul Quotes
  • Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Self Quotes , Contentment Quotes
  • If we are to keep our flock at the highest pitch of excellence, there should be as many unions of the best of both sexes, and as few of the inferior as possible, and that only the offspring of the better unions should be kept.
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    Tags : Plato Quotes , Sex Quotes , Excellence Quotes
  • That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with the help of sensation and without reason, is always in a process of becoming and perishing and never really is.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Becoming Quotes , Helping Quotes