Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
PLATONever discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
More Plato Quotes
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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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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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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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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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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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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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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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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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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