I shall assume that your silence gives consent. - Plato

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I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

Plato

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Plato (Πλάτων Plátōn; c. 427 BC – c. 347 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought and the Academy (Akademia), the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

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Native Name: Πλάτων

Alternative Names: Plátōn • Platon • Aristocles • Αριστοκλής • Ἀριστοκλῆς

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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

Socrates: But suppose the words used are ‘just’ and ‘good’. Don’t we then go each his own way, and find ourselves in disagreement with ourselves as well as with each other?
Phaedrus: Undoubtedly.

اگه با دلت کسي يا چيزي رو دوست داشتي زياد جدي نگيرش. چون کار دل دوست داشتنه... درست مثل کار چشم که ديدنه ... ولي اگه کسي رو با عقلت دوست داشتي بدون داري چيزي رو تجربه مي کني که اسمش عشق واقعيه