Love is a serious mental disease.
PLATOExcess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
More Plato Quotes
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Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
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Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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All learning has an emotional base.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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There is truth in wine and children.
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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
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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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No human thing is of serious importance.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
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