You're my star, a stargazer too,
and I wish that I were heaven,
with a billion eyes to look at you.

Plato

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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

Plato

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Plato

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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

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Plato

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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Plato

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The evil never attains to any real friendship, either with good or evil.

Plato

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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Plato

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All is flux, nothing stays still

Plato

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