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.
PLATOThe measure of a man is what he does with power.
More Plato Quotes
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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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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Philosophy is the highest music.
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No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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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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He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act.
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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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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Time is the moving image of reality.
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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
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Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
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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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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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One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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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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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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