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An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.

Plato

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
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Die Dirty Grow Help Nourish People Person
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
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Accomplishment Entrepreneur Hero Inspirational Man Wise
No human thing is of serious importance.
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Human Importance One Liner Serious
One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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Ending Government Inferior Participate Penalty Politics Refuse
Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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Complete Desire Dreamss Love Pursuit
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
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Courage Inspirational Kindness Progress Success
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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Instrument Music Place Rhythm Soul Training
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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Excess Individual Liberty Slavery State
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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Affection Exclusion Feeling Love Man
The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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Acquire Character Deal Divine Himself Philosophy Republic
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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Door God Life Man Patience Prison Wait
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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Direction Except Hands People Satisfaction Selfish Time Want
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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Change Danger Fundamental Law Music State
Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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Deceive Life One Liner Relationship
Necessity is the mother of invention.
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Inspirational Invention Mother Necessity One Liner
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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Dead Deep Healing Lesson One Liner War

An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.

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