Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
PLATOCharacter is simply habit long continued.
More Plato Quotes
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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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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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely 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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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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