Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
PLATO
He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
More Plato Quotes
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with 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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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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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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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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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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A life without investigation is not worth living.
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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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An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
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He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act.
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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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