Love is the pursuit of the whole.
PLATOAny man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
More Plato Quotes
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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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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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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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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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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All learning has an emotional base.
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Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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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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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.
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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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Character is simply habit long continued.
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Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
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