Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
PLATOMan 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.
More Plato Quotes
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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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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Humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.
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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 feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.
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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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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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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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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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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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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
PLATO