At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
PLATOYou should not honor men more than truth.
More Plato Quotes
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
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An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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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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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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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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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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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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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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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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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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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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