No human thing is of serious importance.
PLATOAn empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
More Plato Quotes
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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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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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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Time is the moving image of reality.
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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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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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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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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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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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