Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
PLATOOne of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
More Plato Quotes
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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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.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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You should not honor men more than truth.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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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 soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.
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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.
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