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

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

-- Plato

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