QUOTES by Plato
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“How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? ”
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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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“In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.”
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“There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”
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“...and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment...”
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“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”
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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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“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
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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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“According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.”
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“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
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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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“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
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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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“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”
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“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
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