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.
PLATOAt the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
More Plato Quotes
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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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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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.
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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There is truth in wine and children.
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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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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No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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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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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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