At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
PLATOAll I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
More Plato Quotes
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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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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No human thing is of serious importance.
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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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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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All learning has an emotional base.
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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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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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An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
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No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.
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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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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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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.
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