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#1

“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.”
― Plato

tags: discipline, education, mentoring, philosophy

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#2

“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: government, inferiority, politics, rule

1506 likes

#3

“Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
― Plato

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#4

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
― Plato

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#5

“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. ”
― Plato

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#6

“Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.”
― Plato

tags: inspirational

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#7

“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
― Plato

tags: courage, fear

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#8

“You should not honor men more than truth.”
― Plato

tags: honesty, honor, secrecy, truth

516 likes

#9

“The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.”
― Plato, The Republic

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#10

“Character is simply habit long continued.”
― Plato

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#11

“Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent",
in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".”
― Plato

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#12

“People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.”
― Plato

tags: things-plato-didn-t-say

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#13

“A house that has a library in it has a soul.”
― Plato

tags: attributed-no-source

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#14

“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”
― Plato

tags: contentment, living, simple

357 likes

#15

“The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.”
― Plato, The Republic of Plato

tags: afterlife, culture, education

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#16

“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. ”
― Plato

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#17

“Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.”
― Plato

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#18

“…if a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.”
― Plato, The Republic and Other Works

tags: love

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#19

“I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning”
― Plato

tags: learning, music

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#20

“For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.”
― Plato, Theaetetus

tags: philosophy, thinking, wisdom, wondering

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#21

“The first and best victory is to conquer self”
― Plato

tags: inspirational

168 likes

#22

“True friendship can exist only between equals.”
― Plato

tags: equals, friendship

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#23

“Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: knowledge

144 likes

#24

“No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself”
― Plato

tags: contentment, music, wealth

135 likes

#25

“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”
― Plato

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#26

“All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance”
― Plato

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#27

“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.”
― Plato

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#28

“The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and with the comfort of old age.”
― Plato, The Republic and Other Works

tags: mistakes

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#29

“Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child's natural bent.”
― Plato

tags: education, homeschool, homeschooling, learning

135 likes

#30

“Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being”
― Plato

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