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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."

2025-03-31 06:22:36

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

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."

2025-01-05 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."

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."

2024-12-02 06:21:51

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

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."

2024-11-02 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."

2024-10-23 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."

2024-10-15 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."

2024-09-20 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."

2024-09-18 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."

2024-09-07 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."

2024-08-25 18:21:06

"Artist or sage or ruler errs at the time when he is what his name implies."

2024-08-23 18:21:06

"The like is not the friend of the like in as far as he is like; still the good may be the friend of the good in as far as he is good."

2024-08-21 18:21:05

"I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it."

2024-08-20 18:21:06

"The measure of a man is what he does with power."

2024-08-19 06:21:50

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

2024-08-18 18:21:51

"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."

2024-08-17 18:21:51

"When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them."

2024-08-17 06:21:50

"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."

2024-08-16 18:21:51

"A man ought not to return evil for evil, as many think, since at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbor."

2024-08-14 18:21:51

"Think only of the ambition of men, and you will wonder at the senselessness of their ways, unless you consider how they are stirred by the love of an immortality of fame. They are ready to run all risks greater far than they would have run for their children, and to spend money and undergo any sort of toil, and even to die, for the sake of leaving behind them a name which shall be eternal."

2024-08-13 18:21:50

"The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things."

2024-08-13 06:21:51

"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand."

2024-08-12 06:21:51

"Nothing could be more important than that the work of a soldier is well done."

2024-08-11 18:21:50

"All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince."

2024-08-11 06:21:51

"'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'."

2024-07-26 18:21:51

"How singular is the thing called pleasure, and how curiously related to pain, which might be thought to be the opposite of it; for they never come to a man together, and yet he who pursues either of them is generally compelled to take the other. They are two, and yet they grow together out of one head or stem."

2024-07-24 18:21:51

"Ignorance is the root and stem of every evil."

2024-07-22 06:21:51

"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."

2024-07-21 18:21:51

2024-07-08 06:22:09

"If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools."

2024-06-28 18:22:08

"The thing to be done does not choose, I imagine, to tarry the leisure of the doer, but the doer must be at the beck of the thing to be done, and not treat it as a secondary affair."

2024-06-26 06:22:01

"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."

2024-06-24 18:22:18

"Isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is?"

2024-06-20 06:21:24

2024-06-15 18:21:25

"Most men in power become villains."

2024-06-09 06:21:14

"Those who tell the stories rule society."

2024-06-08 06:21:25

"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty."

2024-06-06 06:21:26

"Is there a perfect world?"

2024-06-03 06:21:24

"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."

2024-05-31 06:22:03

"No tools will make a man a skilled workmen, or master of defense, or be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them and has never bestowed any attention on them."

2024-05-29 18:22:02

2024-05-29 06:22:04

"Self-conquest is the greatest of victories."

2024-05-26 18:22:00

"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."

2024-05-23 18:22:04

"He who refuses to rule is liable to be ruled by one who is worse than himself."

2024-05-23 06:21:57

"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance."

2024-05-22 06:21:56

2024-05-18 18:21:56

"I don't think we shall quarrel about a word the subject of our inquiry is too important for that."

2024-05-08 06:22:04

"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."

2024-05-07 18:22:00

"I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it."

2024-05-07 06:21:59

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

2024-05-03 06:22:01

"Most men in power become villains."

2024-05-01 18:22:06

"All learning has an emotional base."

2024-04-29 06:21:52

"It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn. The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant."

2024-04-17 18:21:14

"Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonetheless content to accept an involuntary falsehood, isn't angry when it is caught being ignorant, and bears its lack of learning easily, wallowing in it like a pig?"

2024-04-12 18:22:13

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

2024-03-24 06:22:33

"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness, depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom."

2024-03-23 18:22:34

"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."

2024-03-22 18:22:22

"The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings."

2024-03-10 06:22:33

"Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder."

2024-03-09 06:22:37

"The perfect state is one where men weep and rejoice over the same things."

2024-03-07 06:22:30

"No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern."