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"Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature." - Plato, The Symposium
"Courage is knowing what not to fear." - 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
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something." - Plato
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." - Plato
"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge." - Plato
"Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself." - Plato
"The measure of a man is what he does with power." - Plato
"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile." - Plato
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." - Plato
"Justice means minding your own business and not meddling with other men's concerns." - Plato, The Republic
"Education is teaching our children to desire the right things." - Plato "Courage is knowing what not to fear." - Plato
"Love is a serious mental disease." - Plato
"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind." - Plato
"The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself." - Plato
"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men." - Plato
"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
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." - Plato
"Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery." - Plato
"Democracy passes into despotism." - Plato, The Republic
"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men." - Plato "Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance." - Plato
"An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers." - Plato
"Courage is knowing what not to fear." - Plato
"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life." -
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
"Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole." - Plato
"All learning has an emotional base." - Plato。