You should not honor men more than truth.
PLATOWe can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
More Plato Quotes
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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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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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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul.
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
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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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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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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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There is truth in wine and children.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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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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The first and best victory is to conquer self.
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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Humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.
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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
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