Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
PLATOEverything that deceives may be said to enchant.
More Plato Quotes
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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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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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul.
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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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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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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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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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There is truth in wine and children.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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