Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
PLATOIf 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.
More Plato Quotes
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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All learning has an emotional base.
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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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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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
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I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.
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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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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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