Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
PLATOTrue friendship can exist only between equals.
More Plato Quotes
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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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One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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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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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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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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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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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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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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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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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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