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Wells Quotes by Plato
- Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
- No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
- If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the…
- Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
- Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true…
- Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.
- Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it…
- Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body & mind as well.…
- As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
- And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance…
- I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt…
- I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes to ordinary conversation,…
- .. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage,…
- All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.
- So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.
- A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.
- ... because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible...
- If the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul.
- A work well begun is half-ended.
- Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.
- 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…
- The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the…
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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to… — Karen Armstrong
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and… — Neil Armstrong