3 December 2020 Plato He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
3 December 2020 Plato And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
3 December 2020 Plato 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.
3 December 2020 Plato Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.
3 December 2020 Plato Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
3 December 2020 Plato Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
3 December 2020 Plato Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
3 December 2020 Plato Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
3 December 2020 Plato He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
3 December 2020 Plato All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
3 December 2020 Plato The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
3 December 2020 Plato There’s a victory, and defeat the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.