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    Plato
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
    ― Plato
    tags: attributed-no-source, compassion, kindness
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    Plato
    “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.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “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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    Plato
    “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
    ― Plato
    tags: philosophy
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    Plato
    “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “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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    Plato
    “The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: government, inferiority, politics, rule
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    Milan Kundera
    “He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    tags: love, philosophy
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    “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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    Plato
    “According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.”
    ― Plato, The Symposium
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    Plato
    “Love is a serious mental disease.”
    ― Plato, Phaedrus
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    Plato
    “Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
    ― Plato
    tags: philosophy, politics
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    Plato
    “good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”
    ― Plato
    tags: laws, people
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    Plato
    “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
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    Plato
    “There is truth in wine and children”
    ― Plato, Symposium / Phaedrus
    tags: aphorism
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    Plato
    “Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: abilities, empowerment, equality, gender, instruction, jobs, men, skills, women, work
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
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    John Stuart Mill
    “It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of having them fully satisfied; and a highly endowed being will always feel that any happiness which he can look for, as the world is constituted, is imperfect. But he can learn to bear its imperfections, if they are at all bearable; and they will not make him envy the being who is indeed unconscious of the imperfections, but only because he feels not at all the good which those imperfections qualify.

    It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is only because they only know their own side of the question.”
    ― John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism
    tags: capacity, enjoyment, fool, happiness, imperfections, philosophy, satisfaction, socrates
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: learning, lifelong-learning, philosophy, socrates
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons
    tags: examined-life, life, meaning-of-life, plato, socrates, unexamined-life
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    Socrates
    “If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: quotation, saddler, socrates, tame
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    Plato
    “I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.”
    ― Plato, Apology
    tags: apology, knowledge, plato, socrates, wisdom
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn't know about yourself.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: authors, family, friendship, guardian-angels, helping, insight, inspiration, inspire, kindred-spirits, motivational, no-coincidences, pastors, scholars, similarities, socrates, special, teachers, unique
    195 likes

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    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country?
    Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this.
    Socrates: How so, Plato?
    Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is a baker, or a sculptor he is a
    sculptor.
    Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they have
    no need to be reminded.
    Plato: That is correct.
    Socrates: I agree. If these citizens were convinced of their freedom, they would not need reminders.”
    ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
    tags: catholic, catholic-author, christian, citizens, civil-liberty, free-country, freedom, freedom-of-thought, gadfly, liberty, philosophers, philosophical, philosophy, plato, socrates, thought-provoking, wisdom, words-of-wisdom
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