Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
PLATOHumans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.
More Plato Quotes
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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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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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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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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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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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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A life without investigation is not worth living.
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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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