Ideas are the source of all things.
PLATOThere are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
More Plato Quotes
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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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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No human thing is of serious importance.
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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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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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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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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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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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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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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