"Will life be worth having, if that higher part of man be destroyed, which is improved by justice and depraved by injustice?"
Plato Quotes
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Two quotes a day keep the lack of wisdom at bay.
"Those who tell the stories rule society."
"Certainly we shall have to look to ourselves, and try to find someone who will help in some way or other to improve us."
"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..."
"Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others."
"States are as the men, they grow out of human characters."
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"It seems to me that many fall into it even against their will, and fancy they are discussing, when they are merely debating, because they cannot distinguish the meanings of a term, in their investigation of any question, but carry on their opposition to what is stated, by attacking the mere words, employing the art of debate, and not that of philosophical discussion."
"Those whose hearts are fixed on reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers."
"There are three arts which are concerned with all things. One which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them."
"Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or better than cohesion and unity?"
"The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant."
"No tools will make a man a skilled workmen, or master of defense, or be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them and has never bestowed any attention on them."
"No man should bring children into world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education."
"Does not every man love that which he deems noble and just and good, and hate the opposite of them? people regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them."
"If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life."
"A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand."
"A work well begun is half ended."
"Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being."
"Haven't you noticed that opinion without knowledge is always a poor thing? At the best it is blind—isn't anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding like a blind man on the right road?"