Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
PLATOA house that has a library in it has a soul.
More Plato Quotes
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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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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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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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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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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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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.
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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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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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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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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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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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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 learning has an emotional base.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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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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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains 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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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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