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#1

“* An Irish good-bye is when you leave a party or gathering without telling anyone. Highly recommended.”
― Sarah Knight, The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck: How to Stop Spending Time You Don't Have with People You Don't Like Doing Things You Don't Want to Do

tags: irish

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#2

“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

4310 likes

#3

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
― Plato

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#4

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
― Plato

tags: philosophy

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#5

“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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#6

“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

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#7

“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

1459 likes

#8

“Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
― Plato

1221 likes

#9

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

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#10

“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
― Plato

tags: philosophy, politics

1143 likes

#11

“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

890 likes

#12

“Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.”
― Plato

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#13

“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

815 likes

#14

“I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.”
― Plato

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#15

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

748 likes

#16

“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. ”
― Plato

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#17

“Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.”
― Plato

tags: inspirational

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#18

“There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”
― Plato

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#19

“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.”
― Plato

tags: philosophy, politics

521 likes

#20

“You should not honor men more than truth.”
― Plato

tags: honesty, honor, secrecy, truth

515 likes

#21

“There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.”
― Plato

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#22

“When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.”
― Plato

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#23

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

tags: beginning, plato, republic

491 likes

#24

“The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.”
― Plato, The Republic

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#25

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

tags: attributed-no-source

406 likes

#26

“Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.”
― Plato

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#27

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

tags: contentment, living, simple

356 likes

#28

“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”
― Plato

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#29

“Character is simply habit long continued.”
― Plato

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#30

“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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