Every heart sings a song, incomplete, un... by Plato

philosopher Heart Philosophy Ancient Greece Athens

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

- Plato

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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

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I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

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The one who learns and learns and doesn’t practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.

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The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.

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They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

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