Quotes n Stuff How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? ----- Plato
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. ----Plato
All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.----Epictetus
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.---Plato
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.----Antisthenes
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.----Plutarch
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.----Plato
What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if he is a poet, or even, if he is a boxer, just his muscles? Far from it: at the same time, he is a political being, constantly aware of the heartbreaking, passionate, or delightful thing that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. How could it be possible to feel no interest in other people and with a cool indifference to detach yourself from the very life which they bring to you so abundantly? No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
----- Pablo Picasso
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