A life without investigation is not worth living.
PLATOPoetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
More Plato Quotes
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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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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Ideas are the source of all things.
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Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
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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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If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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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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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
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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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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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You should not honor men more than truth.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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