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Misattributed quotes — Plato

427 BC–347 BC Greece

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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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Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.

Misattributed to Plato in Confidence : How to Succeed at Being Yourself (1987)

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

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Empathy is the highest form of knowledge. (Sometimes this appears as ‘Empathy is the highest form of knowledge, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world’.)

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Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of the understanding.

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Necessity is the mother of invention.

Misattributed Commonly misattributed due to Benjamin Jowett's popular idiomatic translation (1871)

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

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Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is good, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but nevertheless dazzling, passionate, and eternal form.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Plato (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.