He was a wise man who invented God.
PLATOThe direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
More Plato Quotes
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All learning has an emotional base.
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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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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.
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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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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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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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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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You should not honor men more than truth.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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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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Character is simply habit long continued.
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Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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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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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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There is truth in wine and children.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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