False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
PLATOWe 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.
More Plato Quotes
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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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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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul.
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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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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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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