There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
PLATOThe direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
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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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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.
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There is truth in wine and children.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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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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Character is simply habit long continued.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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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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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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