No human thing is of serious importance.
PLATONecessity is the mother of invention.
More Plato Quotes
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There is truth in wine and children.
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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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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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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.
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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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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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Those who don’t know must learn from those who do.
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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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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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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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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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