We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
PLATOExcess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
More Plato Quotes
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All learning has an emotional base.
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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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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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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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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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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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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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If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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The first and best victory is to conquer self.
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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