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“When I kiss Agathon my soul is on my lips, where it comes, poor thing, hoping to cross over.” quote by Plato — Download Open image

““When I kiss Agathon my soul is on my lips, where it comes, poor thing, hoping to cross over.””

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Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

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You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.

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“If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks. What you have discovered is a recipe not for memory, but for reminder. And it is no true wisdom that…

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

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I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.

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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

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“The love of man to woman is a thing common and of course, and at first partakes more of instinct and passion than of choice; but true friendship between man and man is infinite and immortal. –Plato-”

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“He was a wise man who invented God.”

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