One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
PLATOLove is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
More Plato Quotes
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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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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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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 measure of a man is what he does with power.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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Humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.
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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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Ideas are the source of all things.
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Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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There is truth in wine and children.
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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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He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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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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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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The first and best victory is to conquer self.
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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