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.
PLATOLove is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
More Plato Quotes
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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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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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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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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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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The first and best victory is to conquer self.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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A life without investigation is not worth living.
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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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