If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
PLATOPoets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
More Plato Quotes
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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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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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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
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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 I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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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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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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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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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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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
PLATO