Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
PLATOLack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
More Plato Quotes
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Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.
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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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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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An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
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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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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we’re looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven’t found it.
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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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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
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Humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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