People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
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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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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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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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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A 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.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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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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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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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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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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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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