We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –

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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –

-- Plato

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Courage is knowing what no to fear.

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

-- Plato

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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

-- Plato

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