Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
PLATOGood actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
More Plato Quotes
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You should not honor men more than truth.
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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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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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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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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
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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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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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