Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
PLATOOne of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
More Plato Quotes
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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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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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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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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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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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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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He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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