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Quotations by author » Plato
Ancient Greek Philosopher He was the world's most influential philosopher. 428 BC-348 BC
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Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
Kindness
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
FashionSimplicity
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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Books are immortal sons deifying their sires
Books
By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.
EducationExcellenceToleranceYouth
Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not
Eyes
Courage is a kind of salvation.
Courage
Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Courage
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
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Democracy passes into despotism.
Democracy
Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike
EqualityGovernment
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
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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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Even the gods love jokes
HumorJokes
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Love
Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors
Mankind
Everything that deceives may be said to enchant
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Excellent things are rare.
Excellence
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