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«At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.»
«By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Education,
Excellence,
Tolerance,
Youth
| Keywords:
citizen, deserves, Education i, passionately, training, upward
«The greatest wealth is to live content with little.»
«It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
chastisement, chastisements, cured, expedient, Expedients, physician, punished, wicked
«In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful --in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason --and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
barely, concluding, dispensing, giving birth, inquiries, in private, in the public eye, perceived, public eye, The Limit, The Public Eye, visible light
«The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men»
«For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
companions, disagreeable, disagreeable person, fathers, moreover, production
«Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable»
«Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.»
«A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Heroism
| Keywords:
accomplished, a hundred, a hundred thousand, hero, hundred thousand
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