Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
PLATONo wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.
More Plato Quotes
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If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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All learning has an emotional base.
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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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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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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