A life without investigation is not worth living.
PLATOPoets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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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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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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
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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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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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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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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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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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The first and best victory is to conquer self.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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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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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
PLATO