He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act.
PLATOThe madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
More Plato Quotes
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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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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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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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A life without investigation is not worth living.
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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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No human thing is of serious importance.
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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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Knowledge is the food of the soul.
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
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Humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.
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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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