The beginning is the most important part of the work.
PLATOWriting is the geometry of the soul.
More Plato Quotes
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Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.
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If 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.
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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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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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Those who don’t know must learn from those who do.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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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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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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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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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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A life without investigation is not worth living.
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Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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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 heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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