Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
PLATODo 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.
More Plato Quotes
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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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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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An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
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A life without investigation is not worth living.
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Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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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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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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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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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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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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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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All learning has an emotional base.
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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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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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