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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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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All learning has an emotional base.
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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
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Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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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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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
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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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Character is simply habit long continued.
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A life without investigation is not worth living.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.
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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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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 price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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The first and best victory is to conquer self.
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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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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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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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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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