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Life Quotes by Plato
- The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
- No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.
- In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.
- Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
- I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
- Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet…
- And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who…
- If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
- Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
- The life which is not examined is not worth living.
- For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire…
- The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark…
- Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body & mind as well.…
- Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant…
- O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse…
- And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his…
- Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is…
- As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.
- The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward…
- The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.
- Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait,…
- Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion,…
- For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.
- Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
- I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.
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- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
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- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
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