No human thing is of serious importance.
PLATOThe direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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Those who don’t know must learn from those who do.
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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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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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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All learning has an emotional base.
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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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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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Man 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.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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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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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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