True friendship can exist only between equals.
PLATOBodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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 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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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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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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No human thing is of serious importance.
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Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
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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.
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