False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
PLATOThere is truth in wine and children.
More Plato Quotes
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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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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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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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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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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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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