Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
PLATODeath is not the worst that can happen to men.
More Plato Quotes
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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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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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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Those who don’t know must learn from those who do.
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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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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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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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