Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
PLATOHonesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
More Plato Quotes
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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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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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
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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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All learning has an emotional base.
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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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