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3 December 2020 Plato

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

3 December 2020 Plato

Philosophy is the highest music.

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

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

3 December 2020 Plato

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

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

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

3 December 2020 Plato

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

3 December 2020 Plato

Life must be lived as play.

3 December 2020 Plato

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

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

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

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

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

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

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

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

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

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

The good is the beautiful.

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

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

3 December 2020 Plato

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

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