Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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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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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All learning has an emotional base.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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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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An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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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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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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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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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.
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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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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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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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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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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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