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.
PLATOKnowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
More Plato Quotes
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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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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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I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.
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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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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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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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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.
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