Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
PLATOThose who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
More Plato Quotes
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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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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
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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 philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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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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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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All learning has an emotional base.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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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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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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