The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
PLATOBe kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.
More Plato Quotes
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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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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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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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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Those who don’t know must learn from those who do.
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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The first and best victory is to conquer self.
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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