We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
PLATOPoets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
More Plato Quotes
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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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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Character is simply habit long continued.
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One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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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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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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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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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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Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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There is truth in wine and children.
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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 was a wise man who invented God.
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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.
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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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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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I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.
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Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.
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