Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
PLATOExcellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
More Plato Quotes
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.
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All learning has an emotional base.
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I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.
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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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You should not honor men more than truth.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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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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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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There is truth in wine and children.
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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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