Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
PLATOHe feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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All learning has an emotional base.
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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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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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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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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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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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Those who don’t know must learn from those who do.
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There is truth in wine and children.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
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