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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.”
― Plato
― Plato
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”
― Plato
― Plato
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination
and life to everything.”
― Plato
and life to everything.”
― Plato
“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
― Plato
― 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
― Plato
“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.”
― Plato
― Plato
“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
― Plato, The Republic
― Plato, The Republic
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
― Plato
― Plato
“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
― Plato
― Plato
“good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”
― Plato
― Plato
“I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with.”
― Plato
― Plato
“There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”
― Plato
― Plato
“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”
― Plato, The Republic
― Plato, The Republic
“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? ”
― Plato
― Plato
“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
― Plato
“According to greek mythology, humans were originally created with 4 arms, 4 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
― Plato




