At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
PLATOIf women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
More Plato Quotes
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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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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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
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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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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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