Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
PLATOKnowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
PLATOA life without investigation is not worth living.
PLATOIf 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.
PLATOMusical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.
PLATOThe most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
PLATOThe object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
PLATOEverything that deceives may be said to enchant.
PLATOPoets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
PLATOAt the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
PLATOA dog has the soul of a philosopher.
PLATOAll learning has an emotional base.
PLATOThe beginning is the most important part of the work.
PLATOHe who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act.
PLATOExcess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
PLATOMan 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.
PLATOIf women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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