Plato
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
-Plato
age
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
-Plato
alone
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
-Plato
anger
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
-Plato
art
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
-Plato
art
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
-Plato
best
There's a victory, and defeat the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
-Plato
best
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
-Plato
business
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
-Plato
change
Courage is a kind of salvation.
-Plato
courage
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
-Plato
courage
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
-Plato
death
Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
-Plato
death
Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
-Plato
death
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
-Plato
death
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
-Plato
education
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
-Plato
education
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
-Plato
education
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
-Plato
education
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
-Plato
education
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
-Plato
education
Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
-Plato
equality
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
-Plato
equality
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
-Plato
faith
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
-Plato
fear
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
-Plato
fear
Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
-Plato
fear
Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
-Plato
fear
Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
-Plato
fitness
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
-Plato
food
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
-Plato
future
The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
-Plato
god
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
-Plato
god
We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
-Plato
god
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
-Plato
good
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
-Plato
good
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