Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
PLATOKnowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
More Plato Quotes
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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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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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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