Plato Quotes



       “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” 
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       “Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
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        “There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.” 
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      “Only the dead have seen the end of war.” 
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        “Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” 
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       “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination
and life to everything.” 
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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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        “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” 
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       “One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” 
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        “Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.” 
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       “good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws” 
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      “Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.” 
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       “The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings” 
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      “Courage is  knowing what not to fear.” 
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        “I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.” 
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        “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” 
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       “Human behaviour flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. ” 
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        “Necessity is the mother of invention.” 
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        “The measure of a man is what he does with power.” 
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        “The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” 
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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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        “The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life” 
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       “Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.” 
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       “Ideas are the source of all things” 
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        “Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.” 
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        “Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.” 
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      “Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.” 
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      “Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.” 
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      “Man is a being in search of meaning.” 
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       “Nothing more excellent nor more valuable than wine was ever granted mankind by God.” 
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       “The first and best victory is to conquer self” 
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       “He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act” 
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        “No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself” 
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       “We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.” 
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        “All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance” 
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       “The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.” 
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       “A dog has the soul of a philosopher.” 
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        “Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned.” 
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       “A life without investigation is not worth living” 
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        “Courage is a kind of salvation. Courage is knowing what not to fear.” 
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