"Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half."
Plato Quotes
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Two quotes a day keep the lack of wisdom at bay.
"I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools."
"I used to imagine that no human can make men good; but I know better now."
"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness, depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom."
"A life without investigation is not worth living."
"All enquiry and all learning is but recollection."
"Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own."
"There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help and what they cannot."
"Good actions can strengthen ourselves and inspire good actions to others."
"The greatest penalty of evildoing; namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men."
"The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions."
"Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole."
"Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree."
"We are twice armed if we fight with faith."
"Of necessity, the most like are most full of envy, strife, and hatred of one another, and the most unlike of friendship. For the poor man is compelled to be the friend of the rich, and the weak requires the aid of the strong, and the sick man of the physician; everyone who knows not has to love and court him who knows."
"Those who tell the stories rule society."
"It is by justice, that we can authenticate a man's value or nullity, the absence of justice, is the absence of what makes him man."
"Most men in power become villains."
"If a person does not attend to the meaning of terms as they are commonly used in argument, he may be involved even in greater paradoxes."
"The reason is that they utter these words of theirs not by virtue of a skill, but by a divine power - otherwise, if they knew how to speak well on one topic thanks to a skill, they would know how to speak about every other topic too."