Writing is the geometry of the soul.
PLATOPoetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
More Plato Quotes
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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A life without investigation is not worth living.
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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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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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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There is truth in wine and children.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act.
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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
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