“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.”
— Plato
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
“No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.”
“Character is simply habit long continued.”
“Necessity is the mother of invention.”
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
“A house that has a library in it has a soul.”
“Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.”
“Love is a serious mental disease.”
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”
“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
“Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses.”
“The first and best victory is to conquer self.”
“No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself”
“A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.”
“In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.”
“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 lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
“Those who tell the stories rule society.”
“Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.”
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
“Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.”
“The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.”
“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.”
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”
“The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.”
“Geometry existed before creation.”
“To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one’s own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.”
“He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.”
“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
“Philosophy is the highest music.”
“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.”
“Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.”
“Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.”
“There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”
“I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.”
“When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.”
“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”
“Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.”
“The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.”
“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.”
“The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.”
“According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.”
“Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.”
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