Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
PLATOThe most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
More Plato Quotes
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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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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He was a wise man who invented God.
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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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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
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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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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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