True friendship can exist only between equals.
PLATOHonesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
More Plato Quotes
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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The first and best victory is to conquer self.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.
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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we’re looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven’t found it.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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