The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
PLATO
Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul.
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Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.
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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.
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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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One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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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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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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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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The first and best victory is to conquer self.
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