Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
PLATOTime is the moving image of reality.
More Plato Quotes
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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
PLATO