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.
PLATOTime is the moving image of reality.
More Plato Quotes
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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.
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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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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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All learning has an emotional base.
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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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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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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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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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