Plato Quotes

A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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Book House Library One Liner Soul
He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.
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Ashamed Honour Involvement Love Lover
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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Die Dirty Grow Help Nourish People Person
All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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Attitude Extent Ignorance
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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Affection Exclusion Feeling Love Man
True friendship can exist only between equals.
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Equality Friendship One Liner True
The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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Beautiful Education Love Object Teaching
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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History Poetry Truth Writing
Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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Children Desire Education Inspirational Teaching Truth
I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.
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Attitude Confuse FAction Insult Thinking Try
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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Behaviour Character Desire Emotion Flow Human Knowledge
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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Blessing Greatness Heaven Love Madness One Liner
Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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Disappointment Evil Hurt Ignorance One Liner Root Sad
The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.
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Arrive Bliss Dwell Flight Forever Invisible Paradise Soul World
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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Compulsion Force Knowledge Mind
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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Fools Intelligence Men Philosophy Speak
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
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Dishonesty Honesty One Liner Profit Truth
Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.
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Decide Judgement Justice Leadership Speak Truth
He was a wise man who invented God.
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God Invention Religion Wisdom Wise
Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.
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Hard Time Healing Kindness Pain Sad Struggle Time
You should not honor men more than truth.
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Honesty Honor Men One Liner Truth
Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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Love One Liner Pursuit
One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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Ending Government Inferior Participate Penalty Politics Refuse
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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Contentment Greatness Live One Liner Wealth
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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Angry Help Lesson Patience Person
No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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Deep Hate Human Nature One Liner Reality Speak Truth
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Greatness Knowledge Poetry Understand Wise

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