"Everyone thinks because it is solely responsible for the wisdom or folly of his life, that is to say of his destiny."
Plato Quotes
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Two quotes a day keep the lack of wisdom at bay.
"The reason is that they utter these words of theirs not by virtue of a skill, but by a divine power - otherwise, if they knew how to speak well on one topic thanks to a skill, they would know how to speak about every other topic too."
"Philosophers are the ones who can reach what always stays the same in every respect, and non- philosophers the ones who cannot, who wonder among the many things that go in every direction."
"To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.,."
"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 hope..."
"Great crimes and pure evil come only from vigorous natures perverted by upbringing; a weak nature never does anything great, good or evil."
"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."
"Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil."
"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song."
"A life without investigation is not worth living."
"No man should bring children into world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education."
"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."