A life without investigation is not worth living.
PLATOA life without investigation is not worth living.
PLATOBeauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
PLATONecessity is the mother of invention.
PLATOExcess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
PLATOIf 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.
PLATOI’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.
PLATOThose who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
PLATONo human thing is of serious importance.
PLATOLove is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
PLATOPeople 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.
PLATOPoets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
PLATOFalse words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
PLATODeath is not the worst that can happen to men.
PLATODo not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
PLATOHe whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
PLATOMan 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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