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.
PLATONo one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
More Plato Quotes
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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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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I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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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.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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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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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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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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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.
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You should not honor men more than truth.
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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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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Ideas are the source of all things.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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Humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.
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The first and best victory is to conquer self.
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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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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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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