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.
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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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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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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Time is the moving image of reality.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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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 life without investigation is not worth living.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
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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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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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