A life without investigation is not worth living.
PLATOKnowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
More Plato Quotes
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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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No human thing is of serious importance.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
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Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
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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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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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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
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