A house that has a library in it has a soul.
PLATOBeauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
More Plato Quotes
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.
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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul.
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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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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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All learning has an emotional base.
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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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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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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
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