Quotes 101 till 117 of 117.
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We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
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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.
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We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
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We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
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What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
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While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?
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Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
Phaedrus -
Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.
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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
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Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.
Phaedrus -
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
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You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
Phaedrus -
Love is a serious mental disease.
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