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.
PLATOGood people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
More Plato Quotes
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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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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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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A life without investigation is not worth living.
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Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
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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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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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There is truth in wine and children.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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