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.
PLATOA 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.
More Plato Quotes
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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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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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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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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Humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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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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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
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