Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
PLATOTrue friendship can exist only between equals.
More Plato Quotes
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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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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul.
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
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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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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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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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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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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
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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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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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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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