No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
PLATOAny man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
More Plato Quotes
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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.
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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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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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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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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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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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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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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