You should not honor men more than truth.
PLATOLet the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.
More Plato Quotes
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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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One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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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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Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
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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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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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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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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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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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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.
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