All learning has an emotional base.
PLATOPoetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
More Plato Quotes
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.
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The first and best victory is to conquer self.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
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A life without investigation is not worth living.
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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
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Humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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