No human thing is of serious importance.
PLATOHe was a wise man who invented God.
More Plato Quotes
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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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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Those who don’t know must learn from those who do.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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The first and best victory is to conquer self.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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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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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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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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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul.
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People 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.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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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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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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Humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.
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