Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
PLATOLove is the pursuit of the whole.
More Plato Quotes
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.
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All learning has an emotional base.
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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
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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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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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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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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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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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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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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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If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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The first and best victory is to conquer self.
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