The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
PLATOPoets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
More Plato Quotes
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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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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Philosophy is the highest music.
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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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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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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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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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul.
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
PLATO