Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
PLATOThe direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
More Plato Quotes
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The first and best victory is to conquer self.
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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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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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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
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Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.
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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
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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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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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