?Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

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?Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

-- Plato

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Knowledge is true opinion.

-- Plato

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For 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. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

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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?

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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. –

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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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