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    Plato
    “Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
    We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent",
    in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; it is to think that one knows what one does not know. No one knows with regard to death wheather it is not really the greatest blessing that can happen to man; but people dread it as though they were certain it is the greatest evil." -The Last Days of Socrates”
    ― Plato
    tags: plato-socrates
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    Plato
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
    ― Plato
    tags: attributed-no-source, compassion, kindness
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    Plato
    “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.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
    ― Plato
    tags: philosophy
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    Plato
    “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.”
    ― Plato
    tags: darkness, dishonesty, fear, light, willful-ignorance
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    Plato
    “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: government, inferiority, politics, rule
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    Plato
    “Love is a serious mental disease.”
    ― Plato, Phaedrus
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    Plato
    “One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
    ― Plato
    tags: philosophy, politics
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    Plato
    “Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “There is truth in wine and children”
    ― Plato, Symposium / Phaedrus
    tags: aphorism
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    Plato
    “good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”
    ― Plato
    tags: laws, people
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    Plato
    “The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.”
    ― Plato, Phaedrus
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    Isaac Newton
    “I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
    ― Isaac Newton
    tags: science, truth
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    Plato
    “Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “Those who tell the stories rule society.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. ”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: abilities, empowerment, equality, gender, instruction, jobs, men, skills, women, work
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    Plato
    “Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.”
    ― Plato
    tags: inspirational
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  • #24
    Plato
    “The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”
    ― Plato
    tags: contentment, living, simple
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    Plato
    “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: apology, knowing, nothing, paradox, plato, republic, socrates, socratic, wisdome
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    Plato
    “Man is a being in search of meaning.”
    ― Plato
    tags: inspirational
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    Plato
    “At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”
    ― Plato
    tags: love
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    Plato
    “In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by...[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society.”
    ― Plato, Republic
    tags: philosophy
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    Plato
    “No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself”
    ― Plato
    tags: contentment, music, wealth
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    Plato
    “False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”
    ― Plato
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