Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
PLATOBe kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
More Plato Quotes
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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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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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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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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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.
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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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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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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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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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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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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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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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Ideas are the source of all things.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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Those who don’t know must learn from those who do.
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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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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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