The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
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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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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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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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.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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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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He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.
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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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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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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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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul.
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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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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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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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An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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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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