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.
PLATOWise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
More Plato Quotes
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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The first and best victory is to conquer self.
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