Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
PLATOThe greatest wealth is to live content with little.
More Plato Quotes
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act.
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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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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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Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.
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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
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A life without investigation is not worth living.
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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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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Do 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.
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