People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Topics: Plato Quotes

Those who seek power are not worthy of that power.

Those who seek power are not worthy of that power.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first...

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first...

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but...

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but...

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest...

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest...

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous....

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous....

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a...

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a...

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be...

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be...

Knowledge is the food of the soul.

Knowledge is the food of the soul.

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not...

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not...

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the...

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the...

Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every...

Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every...

And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead...

And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead...

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the...

That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the...