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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
All learning has an emotional base.
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
He who is of a 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.
He was a wise man who invented beer.
Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.
When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.
The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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.
Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it
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.
Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.
Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
Do not train children to learn by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Democracy passes into despotism.
Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.
Let each one of us leave every other kind of knowledge and seek and follow one thing only, if peradventure he may be able to learn and find some one who will make him able to learn and discern between good and evil, and so to choose always and everywhere the better life as he has opportunity.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
A grateful mind is a great mind, which eventually attracts to itself great things.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods.
Astronomy compels the soul to look upward, and leads us from this world to another.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
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.
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
Love is a grave mental disease.
Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.
The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and objectionable.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Beauty is certainly a soft, smooth, slippery thing, and therefore of a nature which easily slips in and permeates our souls.
No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.
Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
To be curious about that which is not one’s concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness.
Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul.
Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul.
Abstinence is the surety of temperance
Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.
Upon consideration of the central question of the moon’s toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough.
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.
The wisest have the most authority.
And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other’s sight, as I may say, even for a moment.
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.
As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.