I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
PLATOThe greatest wealth is to live content with little.
More Plato Quotes
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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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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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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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