Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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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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 most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul.
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Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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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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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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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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All learning has an emotional base.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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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.
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Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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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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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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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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