Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
PLATOPoets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
More Plato Quotes
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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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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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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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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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Those who don’t know must learn from those who do.
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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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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No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.
PLATO