Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
More Plato Quotes
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.
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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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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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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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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.
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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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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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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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