There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
PLATOHe whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
More Plato Quotes
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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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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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
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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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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we’re looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven’t found it.
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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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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I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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