The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
PLATOPoets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
More Plato Quotes
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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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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One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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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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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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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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