The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
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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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.
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Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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There is truth in wine and children.
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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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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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