Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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Plato Quotes
- 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.
- 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.
- And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
- Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
- Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
- I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
- Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
- Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
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- Sociophobia kills someone's confidence, there are a lot of fear apart from sociophobia that kills someone's personality.
- The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
- Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
- Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.
- Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.