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.
PLATOThe greatest wealth is to live content with little.
More Plato Quotes
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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 direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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Humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul.
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All learning has an emotional base.
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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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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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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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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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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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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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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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He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act.
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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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