Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
PLATOHe feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.
More Plato Quotes
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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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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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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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He was a wise man who invented God.
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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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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Ideas are the source of all things.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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You should not honor men more than truth.
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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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