Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.
PLATOExcess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
More Plato Quotes
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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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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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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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 who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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