Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
PLATOThe soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.
More Plato Quotes
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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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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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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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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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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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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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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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
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