I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
PLATOAt the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
More Plato Quotes
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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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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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.
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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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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 heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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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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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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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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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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