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.
PLATOLove 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.
More Plato Quotes
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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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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We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we’re looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven’t found it.
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Those who don’t know must learn from those who do.
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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
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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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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
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Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.
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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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Humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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