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.
PLATOThe greatest wealth is to live content with little.
More Plato Quotes
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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The first and best victory is to conquer self.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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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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He was a wise man who invented God.
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Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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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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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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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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