"The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation."
Plato Quotes
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Two quotes a day keep the lack of wisdom at bay.
"Philosophy is the highest music."
"Either never, or very seldom, do the quiet actions in life appear to be better than the quick and energetic ones."
"The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings."
"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty."
"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories."
"Everything that deceives may be said to enchant."
"The like is not the friend of the like in as far as he is like; still the good may be the friend of the good in as far as he is good."
"No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death."
"Excellence must be the health and wellbeing of the soul."
"Men say that we ought not to enquire into the supreme God and the nature of the universe, nor busy ourselves in searching out the causes of things, and that such enquiries are impious; whereas the very opposite is the truth."
"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."
"Beauty is the splendor of truth."
"The desires of the worthless many are controlled by the desires and knowledge of the decent few."
"The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods."
"Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness."
"Isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is?"
"The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died."
"Above all things truth beareth away the victory."
"Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him."