"No man should bring children into world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education."
Plato Quotes
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Two quotes a day keep the lack of wisdom at bay.
"Does not every man love that which he deems noble and just and good, and hate the opposite of them? people regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them."
"If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life."
"A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand."
"A work well begun is half ended."
"Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being."
"Haven't you noticed that opinion without knowledge is always a poor thing? At the best it is blind—isn't anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding like a blind man on the right road?"
"The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings."
"The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation."
"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."
"I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning."
"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."