More from Plato
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
PlatoPlato No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
PlatoPlato Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
PlatoPlato There is truth in wine and children.
PlatoPlato We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
PlatoPlato Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
PlatoPlato The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
PlatoPlato There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
PlatoPlato I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.
PlatoPlato The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
PlatoPlato Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
PlatoPlato Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
PlatoPlato Philosophy is the highest music.
PlatoPlato Time is the moving image of reality.
PlatoPlato The measure of a man is what he does with power.
PlatoPlato Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
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