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Education
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Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.
-Plato
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Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.
-Plato
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No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
-Plato
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Evil
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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
-Plato
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Excess
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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
-Plato
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Faith
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We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
-Plato
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Forgiveness
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
-Plato
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Goodness
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In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful --in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason --and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes.
-Plato
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Government
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The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
-Plato
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Greatness & Great Things
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Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
-Plato
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Health
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Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
-Plato
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Heaven
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We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
-Plato
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Honesty
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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
-Plato
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Humanity
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Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
-Plato
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
-Plato
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Humor
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Even the gods love jokes.
-Plato
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Immortality
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I have good hope that there is something after death.
-Plato
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Insults
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Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.
-Plato
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Knowledge
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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Learning
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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
-Plato
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All learning has an emotional base.
-Plato
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Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.
-Plato
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Love
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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
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Love is a serious mental disease.
-Plato
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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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