Plato Quotes, Love Quotes, Needs Quotes

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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It is beautiful to wish to add another's light to your own.

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When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.

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Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.

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In an honest man there is always something of a child.

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When a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.

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And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine

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To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.

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He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.

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Ignorance: the root of all evil.

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To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible.

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A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

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You cannot conceive the many without the one.

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I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.

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He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

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When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.

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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

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Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body.

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He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life.

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