Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
PLATOTrue friendship can exist only between equals.
More Plato Quotes
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Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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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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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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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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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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He was a wise man who invented God.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
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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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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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