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.
PLATOAny man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
More Plato Quotes
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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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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All learning has an emotional base.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
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Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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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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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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I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.
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