Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
PLATOPeople 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.
More Plato Quotes
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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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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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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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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.
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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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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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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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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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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.
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