At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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.
More Plato Quotes
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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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No human thing is of serious importance.
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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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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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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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Those who don’t know must learn from those who do.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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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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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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