"Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own."
Plato Quotes
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Two quotes a day keep the lack of wisdom at bay.
"Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul."
"There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good."
"The matter is as it is in all other cases: If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.,."
"The helpful is beautiful; only the harmful is ugly."
"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."
"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."
"Never discourage anyone. who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."
"The thing to be done does not choose, I imagine, to tarry the leisure of the doer, but the doer must be at the beck of the thing to be done, and not treat it as a secondary affair."
"If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life."
"I used to imagine that no human can make men good; but I know better now."
"Life is a short exile."
"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."
"I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.,."
"The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death."
"But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?"
"There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power."
"The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction."
"Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil."
"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?"