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 first and best victory is to conquer self.
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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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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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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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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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
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Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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You should not honor men more than truth.
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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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All learning has an emotional base.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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Humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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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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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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