Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
PLATOThere is truth in wine and children.
More Plato Quotes
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Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.
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There is truth in wine and children.
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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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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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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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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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Those who don’t know must learn from those who do.
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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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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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Humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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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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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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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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