"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."
                
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            Plato
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Quotes by Plato
"The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below."
"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods."
"Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned."
"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
"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."
"The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things."
"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."
"Ideas are the source of all things"
"Knowledge is the food of the soul."
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life"
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
"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."
"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."
"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."
"Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love."
"Ideas are the source of all things"
"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."
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something."