Plato Quotes and Quotations
The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. Of all animals, the boy is the most unmanageable. Everything that deceives may be said to enchant. Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire. All learning has an emotional base. There are three classes of men-lovers of wisdom, lovers of honour, lovers of gain. When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself. The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself. I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. The life which is unexamined is not worth living. The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. Time is the moving image of eternity. Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts. Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. Wealth ... and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and vicious-ness, and both of discontent. Necessity, who is the mother of our invention. Courage is knowing what not to fear. Courage is a kind of salvation. To be is to do. Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul. We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell. A boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage. Self-conquest is the greatest of victories. Excellent things are rare. He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. Love - a grave mental disease. Every man is a poet when he is in love. Science is nothing but perception. Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. States are as the men are; they grow out of human characters.
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