"No man should bring children into world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education."
Plato Quotes
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Two quotes a day keep the lack of wisdom at bay.
"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."
"Excellence of understanding comes from something divine, whereas the other excellences are probably close to the body."
"Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike."
"Will life be worth having, if that higher part of man be destroyed, which is improved by justice and depraved by injustice?"
"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."
"All learning has an emotional base."
"We are twice armed if we fight with faith."
"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?"
"A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books."
"The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another."
"The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful."
"At the touch of love, Everyone becomes a poet."