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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. - Plato

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way. - Plato

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. - Plato

Man - a being in search of meaning. - Plato

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways. - Plato

Love is a serious mental disease. - Plato

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. - Plato

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases. - Plato

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences. - Plato

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection. - Plato

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. - Plato

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. - Plato

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure. - Plato

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself. - Plato

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are. - Plato

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. - Plato

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed. - Plato

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato

The measure of a man is what he does with power. - Plato

Courage is knowing what not to fear. - Plato

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