All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
PLATOThe beginning is the most important part of the work.
More Plato Quotes
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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A life without investigation is not worth living.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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All learning has an emotional base.
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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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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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There is truth in wine and children.
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Those who don’t know must learn from those who do.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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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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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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