"Are you not ashamed that you give your attention to acquiring as much money as possible, and similarly with reputation and honor, and give no attention or thought to truth and understanding and the perfection of your soul?"
Plato Quotes
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Two quotes a day keep the lack of wisdom at bay.
"Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the fill the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas receives nothing from like.,."
"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."
"The eyes are the windows of the soul."
"He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god."
"If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life."
"Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul."
"Is there a perfect world?"
"No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return."
"This feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy."
"The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation."
"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories."
"That's what education should be ... the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way."
"The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful."
"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."
"Everyone seeks his half."
"Wealth is well known to be a great comforter."
"He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity."
"The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another."
"Is there a perfect world?"