Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
PLATOPeople 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.
More Plato Quotes
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There is truth in wine and children.
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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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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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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You should not honor men more than truth.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
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