Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
PLATOThe heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
More Plato Quotes
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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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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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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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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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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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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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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Those who don’t know must learn from those who do.
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A life without investigation is not worth living.
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Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.
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