No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
PLATONever discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
More Plato Quotes
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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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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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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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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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Those who don’t know must learn from those who do.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
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Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.
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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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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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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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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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The first and best victory is to conquer self.
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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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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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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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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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