Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
PLATOOnly the dead have seen the end of war.
More Plato Quotes
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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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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Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.
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There is truth in wine and children.
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