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#1

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

tags: attributed-no-source, compassion, kindness

#2

“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

tags: darkness, dishonesty, fear, light, willful-ignorance

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#3

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
― Plato

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#4

“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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#5

“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
― Richard Lingard, A Letter of Advice to a Young Gentleman Leaving the University Concerning His Behaviour and Conversation in the World

tags: misattributed-to-plato, paraphrased, people, play

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#6

“Love is a serious mental disease.”
― Plato, Phaedrus

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#7

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

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#8

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: apology, knowing, nothing, paradox, plato, republic, socrates, socratic, wisdome

1459 likes

#9

“Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.”
― Plato

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