To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.


Plato

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When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
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Knowledge is true opinion.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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It is right to give every man his due.
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they ca...
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Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
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All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourse...
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No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compu...
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I would fain grow old learning many things.
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Science is nothing but perception.
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It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
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The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
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He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
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As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
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We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
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Democracy passes into despotism.
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Philosophy begins in wonder.
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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
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Courage is a kind of salvation.
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The good is the beautiful.
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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
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The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
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Man - a being in search of meaning.
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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
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Life must be lived as play.
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Necessity... the mother of invention.
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He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
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There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
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The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
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If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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Truth is its own reward.
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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
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Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself.
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A well begun is half ended.
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Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.
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We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compuls...
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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their mind...
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.
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Even the gods love jokes.
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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
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Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
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Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
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Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what...
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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
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The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the...
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In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely ...
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I have good hope that there is something after death.
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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
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The wisest have the most authority
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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
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Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
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This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
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The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. -Plato.
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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
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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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To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.
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Even the gods love jokes
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From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones,...
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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Abstinence is the surety of temperance
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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...
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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You should not honor men more than truth.
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The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of d...
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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since sty...
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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, h...
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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it ...
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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
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Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort o...
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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
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