"For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes."
Plato Quotes
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Two quotes a day keep the lack of wisdom at bay.
"Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees."
"No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the light, the darker that shadow becomes."
"As there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world."
"If a painter, then, paints a picture of an ideally beautiful man, complete to the last detail, is he any the worse painter because he cannot show that such a man could really exist?"
"Great crimes and pure evil come only from vigorous natures perverted by upbringing; a weak nature never does anything great, good or evil."
"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."
"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."
"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song."
"A life without investigation is not worth living."
"The key is not to live but to live well."
"Democracy passes into despotism."
"What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not beauty itself, and who are incapable of following if someone else tries to lead them to it, and who can see many moral actions, but not morality itself, and so on? That they only ever entertain beliefs, and do not know any of the things they believe?"
"'Excellence' is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act 'rightly' because we are 'excellent', in fact we achieve 'excellence' by acting 'rightly'."
"Necessity is the mother of invention."
"Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike."
"Character is simply habit long continued."
"I used to imagine that no human can make men good; but I know better now."
"Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality."
"Self-conquest is the greatest of victories."