Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
PLATONo wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.
More Plato Quotes
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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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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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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The first and best victory is to conquer self.
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Humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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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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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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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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