Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.
PLATOAn empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
More Plato Quotes
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
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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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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
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One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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The first and best victory is to conquer self.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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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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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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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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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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