Plato Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.
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Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.
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Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture.
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Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
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This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth.
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There should be perfect freedom, legal and social, to do the action and stand the consequences. It would be a great misunderstanding of this doctrine to suppose that it is one of selfish indifference, which pretends that human beings have no business with each other's conduct in life, and that they should not concern themselves about the well-doing or well-being of one another, unless their own interest is involved.
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I'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity.
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A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.
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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
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I been talkin' with my buddy, and he thinks I'm virgin enough fer the two of us.
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The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.
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We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.
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America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.
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The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.
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Natalie Lyalin is writing some of the best poems in the world. There is an evil in her gorgeous poem-hearts. She must have sold her heart to the devil to write like this—so beautiful, so funny and so strange. Her images stack and stack down the page without spilling, each line such a bombshell you'll start reading backward to the first line. These poems are like babies—they will pop out of trees.
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Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.
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Wit has as few true judges as painting.
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Though I am young, I scorn to flit On the wings of borrowed wit.
