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How to use the word PLATO in a Sentence?

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I can’t understand how she can plead not guilty since she’s already been convicted of murdering her mom, the important thing about this is there is going to be a real trial. For us, this is a step in the right direction. I think it would be very helpful for everybody to understand the withheld information in relation to the case from Plato to NATO.

– Elliott Jacobson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

[Treat] unenlightened souls with sympathy and indulgence, remembering that they are ignorant or mistaken about what’s most important. Never be harsh, remember Plato’s dictum: ‘Every soul is deprived of the truth against its will.’

– Marcus Aurelius

added by Normando
4 years ago

Set yourself in motion, if it is in your power, and do not look about you to see if anyone will observe it; nor yet expect Plato’s Republic: but be content if the smallest thing goes on well, and consider such an event to be no small matter.

– Marcus Aurelius

added by Normando
4 years ago

Plato described in great detail a plan for government in which philosophers would take turns ruling the less able people of the country. As you may remember, Plato and his friends were philosophers.

– Ancient Simian Proverb

added by anonymous
7 years ago

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

– Seneca the Younger

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Plato is boring.

– Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, What I owe to the Ancients

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

– G. Stanley Hall

added by anonymous
13 years ago

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

– George Santiano

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.

– Francis Quarles

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

– Clive Staples Lewis

added by anonymous
14 years ago

If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people.

– Simeon Strunsky

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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