Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
PLATOThere are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
More Plato Quotes
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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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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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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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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A life without investigation is not worth living.
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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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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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
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I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.
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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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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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