Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
PLATONo man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
More Plato Quotes
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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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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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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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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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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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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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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Those who don’t know must learn from those who do.
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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