All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
PLATOPoets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
More Plato Quotes
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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All learning has an emotional base.
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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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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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.
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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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