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2025-06-04 06:21:51

"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things."

2025-06-01 06:21:51

"Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul."

2025-05-23 18:21:59

"They think that you bear old age more easily not because of the way you live but because you’re wealthy, for the wealthy, they say, have many consolations."

2025-05-20 18:22:30

"If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest."

2025-05-12 18:21:54

"Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine. A man who uses reminders of these things correctly is always at the highest, most perfect level of initiation, and he is the only one who is perfect as perfect can be. He stands outside human concerns and draws close to the divine; ordinary people think he is disturbed and rebuke him for this, unaware that he is possessed by god."

2025-05-12 06:21:55

"The constrained performance of bodily labour does, it is true, exert no evil influence on the body; but in the case of the mind, no study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory."

2025-05-09 18:22:14

"The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable."

2025-05-09 06:21:52

"Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony."

2025-05-07 18:21:56

"It is easy to forgive children who are afraid of the dark but the real tragedy of life is men who are afraid of the light."

2025-05-06 18:21:56

"An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers."

2025-05-06 06:21:56

"We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it."

2025-05-05 18:21:52

"Death is not the worst that can happen to men."

2025-05-05 06:22:16

"Never discourage anyone. who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."

2025-05-04 18:21:57

"The rhetorician need not know the truth about things; he has only to discover some way of persuading the ignorant that he has more knowledge than those who know."

2025-05-04 06:22:29

"It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning and to see the good but to be willing to descend again to those prisoners and to share their troubles and their honors, whether they are worth having or not. And this they must do, even with the prospect of death."

2025-05-03 18:21:57

"Philosophy, Socrates, if pursued in moderation and at the proper age, is an elegant accomplishment, but too much philosophy is the ruin of human life."

2025-05-01 18:21:56

"Necessity is the mother of invention."

2025-04-30 18:21:58

"As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves."

2025-04-30 06:21:51

"We are twice armed if we fight with faith."

2025-04-27 06:21:51

"Will life be worth having, if that higher part of man be destroyed, which is improved by justice and depraved by injustice?"

2025-04-26 18:21:51

"The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams."

2025-04-26 06:21:51

"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance."

2025-04-24 18:21:52

"Those who have knowledge are more confident than those who have no knowledge, and they are more confident after they have learned than before."

2025-04-24 06:21:51

"You know that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken. Shall we just carelessly allow children to hear any casual tales which may be devised by casual persons, and to receive into their minds ideas for the most part the very opposite of those which we should wish them to have when they are grown up?"

2025-04-13 18:22:36

"Those who tell the stories rule society."

2025-04-12 18:22:36

"Haven't you noticed that opinion without knowledge is always a poor thing? At the best it is blind—isn't anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding like a blind man on the right road?"

2025-04-12 06:22:36

"Life is a short exile."

2025-04-10 18:22:36

"Honesty is for the most part, less profitable than dishonesty."

2025-04-10 06:22:36

"It is impossible to improve the world if first the man does not improve."

2025-04-08 18:22:36

"Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school. And the person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool."

2025-04-08 06:22:36

"The tools that would teach men their own use would be beyond price."

2025-04-05 06:22:36

"Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom."

2025-04-04 06:21:51

"Hope,' he says, 'cherishes the soul of him who lives justice and holiness, and is the nurse of his age and the companion of his journey; hope which is mightiest to sway the restless soul of man."

2025-04-03 18:22:36

"Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it, but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them."

2025-04-02 18:22:35

"By harming a horse, you decrease his excellence. Thus, by harming a person, you decrease their excellence."

2025-04-01 18:22:36

"It's not at all uncommon to find a person's desires compelling him to go against his reason, and to see him cursing himself and venting his passion on the source of the compulsion within him. It's as if there were two warring factions, with passion fighting on the side of reason."

2025-03-31 18:22:37

"Friends have all things in common."

2025-03-31 06:22:36

"Each person must tend to the business that accords with his nature."

2025-03-30 18:22:36

"The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death."

2025-03-28 06:22:36

"'Excellence' is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act 'rightly' because we are 'excellent', in fact we achieve 'excellence' by acting 'rightly'."

2025-03-27 18:22:36

"Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him."

2025-03-22 06:22:36

"Man is a being in search of meaning."

2025-03-17 06:22:35

"The wisest have the most authority."

2025-02-28 18:22:36

"Yet even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route."

2025-02-28 06:22:36

"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."

2025-02-24 06:22:37

"Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses."

2025-02-08 18:22:37

"A house that has a library in it has a soul."

2025-01-06 06:21:51

2025-01-05 06:21:51

"When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but the presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good; for that which was once both good and evil has now become evil only, and the good has no friendship with evil."

2025-01-01 18:21:51

"An accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men."

2025-01-01 06:21:53

"This alone is to be feared: the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of spirit.,."

2024-12-27 06:21:53

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2024-12-25 18:21:51

"The harder you work, the luckier you get."

2024-12-24 06:21:51

"This feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy."

2024-12-22 18:21:51

"Excellence of understanding comes from something divine, whereas the other excellences are probably close to the body."

2024-12-22 06:21:51

"Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may."

2024-12-15 06:21:51

"As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves."

2024-12-14 18:21:52

"Doesn’t it follow that a ship’s captain or ruler won’t seek and order what is advantageous to himself, but what is advantageous to a sailor? No one in any position of rule, insofar as he is a ruler, seeks or orders what is advantageous to himself, but what is advantageous to his subjects; the ones of whom he is himself the craftsman. It is to his subjects and what is advantageous and proper to them that he looks, and everything he says and does he says and does for them."

2024-12-12 18:21:51

"Never discourage anyone. who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."

2024-12-03 18:21:51

"Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being."

2024-12-02 06:21:51

"To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way."

2024-11-23 18:21:52

"I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with."

2024-11-20 18:21:51

"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."

2024-11-19 18:21:52

"First and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things the most shameful and objectionable."

2024-11-13 06:21:51

"Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle."

2024-11-10 18:21:07

"This is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best.,."

2024-11-07 18:21:07

"Philosophers are the ones who can reach what always stays the same in every respect, and non- philosophers the ones who cannot, who wonder among the many things that go in every direction."

2024-11-07 06:21:51

"To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man."

2024-11-05 18:21:06

"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 in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils — no, nor the human race, as I believe — and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day."

2024-11-05 06:21:06

"It is impossible to improve the world if first the man does not improve."

2024-11-04 18:21:07

"Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder."

2024-11-02 18:21:06

"It is impossible to improve the world if first the man does not improve."

2024-11-02 06:21:05

"The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge."

2024-10-30 18:21:06

"The desire for sex turns the penis into a disobedient thing with a mind of its own. Like an animal that will not listen .it tries to take complete control."

2024-10-30 06:21:06

2024-10-26 18:21:06

"Men say that everyone is naturally a lover of himself, and that it is right that it should be so. This is a mistake; for in fact the cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved, so that he passes a wrong judgment upon what is just, good, and beautiful, thinking that he ought always to honor what belongs to himself, in preference to truth. For he who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself or by another."

2024-10-25 18:21:06

"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."

2024-10-23 18:21:07

"The good are like one another, and friends to one another; and ... the bad, as is often said of them, are never at unity with one another or with themselves, but are passionate and restless: and that which is at variance and enmity with itself is not likely to be in union or harmony with any other thing.,."

2024-10-22 06:21:07

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzling, passionate, and eternal form."

2024-10-19 06:21:06

"A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books."

2024-10-15 06:21:07

"The plan grows under the author's hand; new thoughts occur to him in the act of writing; he has not worked out the argument to the end before he begins."

2024-10-12 18:21:07

"Human behavior flows from three main sources desire, emotion, and knowledge."

2024-10-02 06:21:52

"Human behavior flows from three main sources desire, emotion, and knowledge."

2024-09-28 06:21:50

"Wonder is the only beginning of philosophy."

2024-09-23 06:21:06

"Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul."

2024-09-22 06:21:08

"Because people want more and more possessions, they start wanting more money, and thus honor money more and excellence less. Accordingly, the wealthy become more honored, and the people of excellence less honored. With the majority now money-loving businessmen instead of lovers of victory and honor, the admirable rich men will be put into office, and the poor will be dishonored."

2024-09-20 18:21:07

"It is only the dead who have seen the end of war."

2024-09-20 06:21:07

"The eyes are the windows of the soul."

2024-09-19 18:21:06

"All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else."

2024-09-18 06:21:07

"A life without investigation is not worth living."

2024-09-13 18:21:06

"Take a look around, then, and see that none of the uninitiated are listening. Now by the uninitiated I mean the people who believe in nothing but what they can grasp in their hands, and who will not allow that action or generation or anything invisible can have real existence."

2024-09-11 06:21:06

"Character is simply habit long continued."

2024-09-09 18:21:07

"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."

2024-09-09 06:21:06

"Without any one teaching him he will recover his knowledge for himself, if he is only asked questions."

2024-09-08 18:21:06

"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men."

2024-09-07 18:21:07

"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."

2024-09-05 18:21:05

"Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods, and defend himself against his enemies, and win in the contest."

2024-09-03 18:21:06

"It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.,."

2024-09-01 06:21:06

"Excellence of understanding comes from something divine, whereas the other excellences are probably close to the body."

2024-08-28 18:21:06

"All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance."