At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
PLATOFalse words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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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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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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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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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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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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Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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