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.
PLATOMan is a being in search of meaning.
More Plato Quotes
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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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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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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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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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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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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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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.
PLATO