He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
PLATOIdeas are the source of all things.
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He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act.
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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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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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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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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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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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we’re looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven’t found it.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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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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