Plato ✓

epigrammatist Classical Athens

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[Wikidata] 4th-century BCE Greek philosopher... | [Wikipedia] Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher of Classical Athens who is most commonly considered the foundational thinker of the Western philosophical tradition. An innovator of the literary dialogue and dialectic forms, Plato influenced all the major areas of theoretical philosophy and practical philosop

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• One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. Ancient Greek
• The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. Affair
• The measure of a man is what he does with power. Doe
• Even the gods love jokes. God Love
• 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… Always Find
• Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. Astronomy
• False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. Evil
• The first and the best victory is to conquer self. Best
• Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity. Beauty
• Love: a grave mental disease. Break
• A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers. Based
• Courage is a kind of salvation. Courage
• Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been… Art
• Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul Dance
• The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of… All
• Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. Affair
• The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which… Appears
• Man is a being in search of meaning. Inspirational
• That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It… Aligned
• The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. Determine
• Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers. Fields
• He was a wise man who invented beer. Beer
• There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power. Acknowledge
• The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of… Evil
• No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death. Death

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