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Category: Plato

12 December 2020 Plato

Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

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

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

3 December 2020 Plato

Love is a serious mental disease.

3 December 2020 Plato

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

3 December 2020 Plato

Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.

3 December 2020 Plato

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

3 December 2020 Plato

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

3 December 2020 Plato

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

3 December 2020 Plato

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

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

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

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

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

3 December 2020 Plato

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

3 December 2020 Plato

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

3 December 2020 Plato

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

3 December 2020 Plato

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

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

I would fain grow old learning many things.

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.

3 December 2020 Plato

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

3 December 2020 Plato

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

3 December 2020 Plato

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

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