Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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The first and best victory is to conquer self.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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You should not honor men more than truth.
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The price good men pay for indifference to 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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Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.
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An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
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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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Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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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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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
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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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There is truth in wine and children.
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