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“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
― Plato, The Republic

“A house that has a library in it has a soul.”
― Plato

“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”
― Plato

“Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder”
― Plato

“Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.”
― Plato, The Symposium

“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. ”
― Plato

“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. ”
― Plato

“Writing is the geometry of the soul. ”
― Plato

“Love is the pursuit of the whole.”
― Plato

“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.”
― Plato, The Symposium

“Love is a serious mental disease.”
― Plato, Phaedrus

“There is truth in wine and children”
― Plato, Symposium / Phaedrus

“Those who tell the stories rule society.”
― Plato

“The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.”
― Plato, Phaedrus

“Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. ”
― Aristotle, Politics

“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”
― Aristotle

“All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world”
― Aristotle

“India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.”
― Shashi Tharoor