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.
PLATOI’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.
More Plato Quotes
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Humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.
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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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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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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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He was a wise man who invented God.
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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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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 direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
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Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
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A life without investigation is not worth living.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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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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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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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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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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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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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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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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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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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
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I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.
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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.
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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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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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