"Writing is the geometry of the soul."
PL
Plato
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Quotes by Plato
"Ideas are the source of all things"
"Ideas are the source of all things"
"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."
"Education is teaching our children to desire the right things."
"Ideas are the source of all things"
"The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things."
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
"He was a wise man who invented God."
"A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him."
"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."
"He was a wise man who invented God."
"Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love."
"You should not honor men more than truth."
"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods."
"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."
"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."
"Knowledge is the food of the soul."
"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."
"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."