True friendship can exist only between equals.
PLATOTrue friendship can exist only between equals.
PLATOThe madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
PLATOThe price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
PLATOLove 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.
PLATOGood people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
PLATOHuman behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
PLATOLove is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
PLATOThe measure of a man is what he does with power.
PLATOKnowledge is the food of the soul.
PLATOThe heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
PLATOAt the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
PLATOThere are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
PLATOIf a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.
PLATOMusical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
PLATOGood actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
PLATOThere is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
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