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.
PLATODeath is not the worst that can happen to men.
More Plato Quotes
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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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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He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.
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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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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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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul.
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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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