Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
PLATOPoetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
More Plato Quotes
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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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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Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.
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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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A house that has a library in it has a 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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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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