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.
PLATOCourage is knowing what not to fear.
More Plato Quotes
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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You should not honor men more than truth.
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Those who don’t know must learn from those who do.
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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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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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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
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I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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A life without investigation is not worth living.
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