3 December 2020 Plato The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
3 December 2020 Plato I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
3 December 2020 Plato Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
3 December 2020 Plato 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.
3 December 2020 Plato I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
3 December 2020 Plato Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something.
3 December 2020 Plato Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
3 December 2020 Plato Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
3 December 2020 Plato To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
3 December 2020 Plato Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
3 December 2020 Plato There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
3 December 2020 Plato Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
3 December 2020 Plato Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
3 December 2020 Plato No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
3 December 2020 Plato We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
3 December 2020 Plato Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.