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.
PLATOThere is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
More Plato Quotes
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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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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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
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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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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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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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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.
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