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Wednesday, February 9th, 2011 | Quotes

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
— Plato

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
— Plato

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
— Plato

“Music gives soul to the universe
wings to the mind
flight to the imagination
and life to everything”
— Plato

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”
— Plato

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men afraid of the light”
— Plato

“There is truth in wine and children”
— Plato (Symposium and Phaedrus)

“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
— Plato

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
— Plato

“The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings”
— Plato

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
— Plato

“Those who tell the stories rule society.”
— Plato

“Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.”
— Plato (Plato’s Republic)

“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
— Plato

“Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
— Plato

“Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.”
— Plato

“Love is a serious mental disease.”
— Plato

“How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? ”
— Plato

“good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”
— Plato

“When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.”
— Plato

“There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”
— Plato

“I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with.”
— Plato

“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. ”
— Plato

“The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her
culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one’s education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.”
— Plato (The Republic of Plato)

“People who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.”
— Plato

“Death is not the worst that can happen to men.”
— Plato

“Necessity is the mother of invention.”
— Plato

“I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.”
— Plato

“Character is simply habit long continued.”
— Plato

“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”.”
— Plato

“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”
— Plato

“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. ”
— Plato

“Love is the pursuit of the whole.”
— Plato

“A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. ”
— Plato

“You should not honor men more than truth.”
— Plato

“In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill… we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.”
— Plato

“Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.”
— Plato

“…if a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.”
— Plato (The Republic and Other Works)

“To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; it is to think that one knows what one does not know. No one knows with regard to death wheather it is not really the greatest blessing that can happen to man; but people dread it as though they were certain it is the greatest evil.” -The Last Days of Socrates”
— Plato

“Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.”
— Plato

“Books are immortal sons defying their sires.”
— Plato

“You’re my Star, a stargazer too,
and I wish that I were Heaven,
with a billion eyes to look at you!”
— Plato

“The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.”
— Plato

“Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.”
— Plato

“The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and with the comfort of old age.”
— Plato (The Republic and Other Works)

“In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by…[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society.”
— Plato (Plato’s Republic)

“Man…is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.”
— Plato

“The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become rulers in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.”
— Plato (Plato’s Republic)

“But Above all things truth beareth away the victory ”
— Plato

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