Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
PLATOThe object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
More Plato Quotes
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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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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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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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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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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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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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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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A life without investigation is not worth living.
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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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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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