Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
PLATOBeauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
More Plato Quotes
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All learning has an emotional base.
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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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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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There is truth in wine and children.
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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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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
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Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.
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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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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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