At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
PLATOOf all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
More Plato Quotes
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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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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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
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Humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.
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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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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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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.
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