He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act.
PLATOThere is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
More Plato Quotes
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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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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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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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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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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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.
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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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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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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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