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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Looking for the good of our fellow find ours. –

-- Plato

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Either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another....Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

-- 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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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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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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