"There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good."
Plato Quotes
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Two quotes a day keep the lack of wisdom at bay.
"Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree."
"In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection."
"Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or better than cohesion and unity?"
"Ideas are the source of all things."
"Let nobody speak mischief of anybody."
"The wrong use of a thing is far worse than the non-use."
"The tools that would teach men their own use would be beyond price."
"I used to imagine that no human can make men good; but I know better now."
"As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him."
"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."
"Love is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that which he is or has."
"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."
"Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own."
"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."