Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
PLATOPoetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
More Plato Quotes
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
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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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Ideas are the source of all things.
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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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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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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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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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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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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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No human thing is of serious importance.
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.
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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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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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