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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.

Plato

You're my Star, a stargazer too,and I wish that I were Heaven,with a billion eyes to look at you!

Plato

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Plato

You should not honor men more than truth.

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

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

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

Plato

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Plato

Writing is the geometry of the soul.

Plato

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

Plato

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Plato

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