"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."
Plato Quotes
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Two quotes a day keep the lack of wisdom at bay.
"Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know."
"I used to imagine that no human can make men good; but I know better now."
"Ideas are the source of all things."
"When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income."
"If a man says that it is right to give everyone his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one."
"A house that has a library in it has a soul."
"Love is of the beautiful, and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires the good."
"Knowledge is the food of the soul."
"The like is not the friend of the like in as far as he is like; still the good may be the friend of the good in as far as he is good."
"When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but the presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good; for that which was once both good and evil has now become evil only, and the good has no friendship with evil."
"It is impossible to improve the world if first the man does not improve."
"Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence."
"Wisdom alone is the true and unalloyed coin for which we ought to exchange all things, for this and with this everything is bought and sold Fortitude, temperance, and justice; in a word, true virtue subsists with wisdom."
"We shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know;— that is a theme upon which I am ready to fight, in word and deed, to the utmost of my power."
"I prefer nothing, unless it is true."
"Without any one teaching him he will recover his knowledge for himself, if he is only asked questions."
"A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand."
"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men."
"It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.,."