The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
PLATOWe 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.
More Plato Quotes
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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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 price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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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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Character is simply habit long continued.
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Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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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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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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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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You should not honor men more than truth.
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Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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