At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
PLATOThe price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
More Plato Quotes
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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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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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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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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.
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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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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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