Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
PLATOKnowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
More Plato Quotes
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Humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
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I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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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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Character is simply habit long continued.
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There is truth in wine and children.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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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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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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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.
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