The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
PLATOKnowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
More Plato Quotes
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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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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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we’re looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven’t found it.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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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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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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Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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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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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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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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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
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Knowledge is the food of the soul.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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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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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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