Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
PLATOHe whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
More Plato Quotes
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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Love 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.
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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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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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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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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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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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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He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.
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