Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
PLATOThe heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
More Plato Quotes
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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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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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There is truth in wine and children.
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Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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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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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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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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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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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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