Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
PLATOWhen men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
More Plato Quotes
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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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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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Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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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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Time is the moving image of reality.
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He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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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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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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