Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
PLATOBeauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
More Plato Quotes
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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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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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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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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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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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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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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