All learning has an emotional base.
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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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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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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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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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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Love is a serious mental disease.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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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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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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Those who don’t know must learn from those who do.
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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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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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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