The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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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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.
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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
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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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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we’re looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven’t found it.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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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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Time is the moving image of reality.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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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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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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