Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
PLATOWriting is the geometry of the soul.
More Plato Quotes
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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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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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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You should not honor men more than truth.
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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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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Philosophy is the highest music.
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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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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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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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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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All learning has an emotional base.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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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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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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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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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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