Plato

Plato

"Courage is a kind of salvation."
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"Courage is a kind of salvation."
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"Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several he will fail to achieve distinction in any."
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"Self-conquest is the greatest of victories."
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"Of all animals the boy is the most unmanageable."
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"A boy is of all wild beasts the most difficult to manage."
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"We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell."
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"At the touch of love 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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"The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines."
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"Caring about the happiness of others, we find our own."
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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 price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
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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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"Nothing could be more important than that the work of a soldier is well done. No tools will make a man a skilled workmen, or master of defense, or be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them and has never bestowed any attention on them."
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"For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet"
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"[On the virtuous man] "He combines the highest, lowest and middle chords in complete harmony within himself."
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"The perfect state is one where men weep and rejoice over the same things."
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"It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be."
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"I am smart because I know I nothing."
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"I know that I know nothing"
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