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.
PLATOBeauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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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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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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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 who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
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