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Last Notes npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by. philosophy to complete uselessness as members of society." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "They say that to do injustice is, by nature, good; to suffer injustice, evil, but that the evil is greater than the good. And so when men have both done and suffered injustice and have had experience of both, not being able to avoid the one and obtain the other, they think that they had better agree among themselves to have neither; hence there arise laws and mutual covenants, and that which is ordained by law is termed by them lawful and just. This they affirm to be the origin and nature of justice, it is a mean or compromise." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "He could not harm me, for I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "All knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Observe that open loves are held to be more honorable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest, even if their persons are less beautiful than others, is especially honorable." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "A person's desires force him to something to reason and he berates himself and gets indignant with the part that forces him, and his spirit allies with reason as though reason and desire were at civil war." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "I used to imagine that no human can make men good; but I know better now." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "You don’t seem to love money too much. And those who haven’t made their own money are usually like you. But those who have made it for themselves are twice as fond of it as those who haven’t." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "I used to imagine that no human can make men good; but I know better now." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "The true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and, at last, knows what the essence of beauty is." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "They say that to do injustice is, by nature, good; to suffer injustice, evil, but that the evil is greater than the good. And so when men have both done and suffered injustice and have had experience of both, not being able to avoid the one and obtain the other, they think that they had better agree among themselves to have neither; hence there arise laws and mutual covenants, and that which is ordained by law is termed by them lawful and just. This they affirm to be the origin and nature of justice, it is a mean or compromise." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Are you not ashamed that you give your attention to acquiring as much money as possible, and similarly with reputation and honor, and give no attention or thought to truth and understanding and the perfection of your soul?" npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "When the rhetorician is more persuasive than the physician, the ignorant is more persuasive with the ignorant than he who has knowledge? Is not that the inference?" npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "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." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Beauty is certainly a soft, smooth, slippery thing, and therefore of a nature which easily slips in and permeates our souls." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "I must distinguish between that which always is and never becomes and which is apprehended by reason and reflection, and that which always becomes and never is and is conceived by opinion with the help of sense." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Philosophers are the ones who can reach what always stays the same in every respect, and non- philosophers the ones who cannot, who wonder among the many things that go in every direction." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine. A man who uses reminders of these things correctly is always at the highest, most perfect level of initiation, and he is the only one who is perfect as perfect can be. He stands outside human concerns and draws close to the divine; ordinary people think he is disturbed and rebuke him for this, unaware that he is possessed by god." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "A freeman ought not to be a slave in the acquisition of knowledge of any kind. Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "They master certain pleasures because they are mastered by others, I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains, and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that they only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom ." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is?" npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "It is impossible to improve the world if first the man does not improve." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Of necessity, the most like are most full of envy, strife, and hatred of one another, and the most unlike of friendship. For the poor man is compelled to be the friend of the rich, and the weak requires the aid of the strong, and the sick man of the physician; everyone who knows not has to love and court him who knows." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "The greatest wealth is to live content with little." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "I say that justice is nothing other than the advantage of the stronger." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Necessity is the mother of invention." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "States are as the men, they grow out of human characters." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Philosophy, Socrates, if pursued in moderation and at the proper age, is an elegant accomplishment, but too much philosophy is the ruin of human life." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "The like is not the friend of the like in as far as he is like; still the good may be the friend of the good in as far as he is good." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning and to see the good but to be willing to descend again to those prisoners and to share their troubles and their honors, whether they are worth having or not. And this they must do, even with the prospect of death." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Justice, although it resembles a mirage, is really concerned with internal rather than external activity, with the true self and its business." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Honesty is for the most part, less profitable than dishonesty." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.,." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "The thing to be done does not choose, I imagine, to tarry the leisure of the doer, but the doer must be at the beck of the thing to be done, and not treat it as a secondary affair." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Nothing could be more important than that the work of a soldier is well done." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "The helpful is beautiful; only the harmful is ugly." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "There are three arts which are concerned with all things. One which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Wealth is well known to be a great comforter." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.,." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "All enquiry and all learning is but recollection." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Wealth is well known to be a great comforter." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Ignorance is the root and stem of every evil." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "There's a victory and defeat. The first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonetheless content to accept an involuntary falsehood, isn't angry when it is caught being ignorant, and bears its lack of learning easily, wallowing in it like a pig?" npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "No man should bring children into world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Science is nothing but perception." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "I perplex others, not because I am clear, but because I am utterly perplexed myself." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not beauty itself, and who are incapable of following if someone else tries to lead them to it, and who can see many moral actions, but not morality itself, and so on? That they only ever entertain beliefs, and do not know any of the things they believe?" npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Wonder is the only beginning of philosophy." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Is there a perfect world?" npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Must not all things at last be swallowed up in Death?" npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Love is a madness produced by an unclassifiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "The greatest penalty of evildoing; namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "They master certain pleasures because they are mastered by others, I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains, and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that they only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom ." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Those who have knowledge are more confident than those who have no knowledge, and they are more confident after they have learned than before." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Never discourage anyone. who continually makes progress, no matter how slow." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit which is common to them and all men. And hence they are very bad company, for they can talk about nothing but the praises of wealth." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "It seems to me that many fall into it even against their will, and fancy they are discussing, when they are merely debating, because they cannot distinguish the meanings of a term, in their investigation of any question, but carry on their opposition to what is stated, by attacking the mere words, employing the art of debate, and not that of philosophical discussion." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song." npub1plat0kfywye0zj7d8qmckzkwmscdxh3tyecd3xm6arpd9scx47vs6lg43q Plato Quotes "It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn. The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant."
