Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
PLATOIgnorance, the root and stem of every evil.
More Plato Quotes
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
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Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul.
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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
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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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One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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