Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.

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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.

-- Plato

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Only the dead have seen the end of the war. –

-- Plato

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As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists or haters of ideas. –

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The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

-- Plato

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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?

-- Plato

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Love is a serious mental disease.

-- Plato

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