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2024-09-11 08:21:06

"Character is simply habit long continued."

2024-09-10 20:21:06

"Knowledge is the food of the soul."

2024-08-25 20:21:06

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

2024-08-23 20:21:06

"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 20:21:05

"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 20:21:06

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

2024-08-19 08:21:50

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

2024-08-18 20:21:51

"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 08:21:50

"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."

2024-08-15 20:21:51

"Those who tell the stories rule society."

2024-08-14 20:21:51

"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 08:21:51

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

2024-08-01 20:21:51

"All learning is in the learner, not the teacher."

2024-07-31 20:21:50

"Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been."

2024-07-31 08:21:51

"Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others."

2024-07-26 20:21:51

"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."

2024-07-22 08:21:51

"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 20:21:51

"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."

2024-07-17 20:21:51

"He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it."

2024-07-16 08:21:58

"Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil."

2024-07-13 20:21:57

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

2024-07-12 08:21:53

"Assuredly he will love that most whose interests he regards as identical with his own, and in whose prosperity or adversity he believes his own fortunes to be involved."

2024-07-11 08:21:56

"The useful is the noble and the hurtful is the base."

2024-07-08 08:22:09

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

2024-07-04 20:22:08

"Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another."

2024-07-02 08:22:05

"I must go beyond the dark world of sense information to the clear brilliance of the sunlight of the outside world. Once done, it becomes my duty to go back to the cave in order to illuminate the minds of those imprisoned in the ‘darkness’ of sensory knowledge."

2024-06-30 20:22:07

"God is the cause only of good."

2024-06-29 20:22:04

"Eat and drink and sit with the mighty, and make yourself agreeable to them; for from the good you will learn what is good, but if you mix with the bad you will lose the intelligence which you already have."

2024-06-28 20:22:08

"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 08:22:01

"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."

2024-06-25 20:21:54

"The truth is, O men of Athens, that God only is wise; and by his answer he intends to show that the wisdom of men is worth little or nothing."

2024-06-25 08:22:04

"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."

2024-06-24 20:22:18

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

2024-06-24 08:22:05

"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."

2024-06-23 20:22:01

"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.,."

2024-06-23 08:21:58

"This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related."

2024-06-22 20:22:00

"Love is the joy of the good the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods."

2024-06-21 20:22:08

"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."

2024-06-21 08:22:08

"Certainly old age has a great sense of calm and freedom; when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are freed from the grasp not of one mad master only, but of many. The truth is, Socrates, that these regrets, and also the complaints about relations, are to be attributed to the same cause, which is not old age, but men's characters and tempers; for he who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden."

2024-06-20 20:22:16

"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song."

2024-06-20 08:21:24

"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."

2024-06-19 20:21:15

"Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many."

2024-06-19 08:21:19

"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."

2024-06-18 20:22:08

"Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore, he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.,."

2024-06-18 08:21:18

"You ought not to attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the eyes, so neither ought you to attempt to cure the body without the soul."

2024-06-17 08:21:16

"No man should bring children into world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education."

2024-06-16 08:21:30

"Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended."

2024-06-15 20:21:25

"Most men in power become villains."

2024-06-15 08:21:08

"There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power."

2024-06-14 08:21:32

"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."

2024-06-13 20:21:28

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

2024-06-13 08:21:27

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

2024-06-12 20:21:24

"If a man says that it is right to give everyone his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one."

2024-06-12 08:21:10

"Justice, although it resembles a mirage, is really concerned with internal rather than external activity, with the true self and its business."

2024-06-11 20:21:23

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

2024-06-11 08:21:31

"If people despise money when young, but grow to love it more and more as they grow older and no longer devote themselves to excellence as the best guardian, the power of reasoned, educated speech, leaves them."

2024-06-10 20:21:36

"Evil is more opposed to the good than to the no-good."

2024-06-10 08:21:21

"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."

2024-06-09 20:21:19

"So when a man surrenders to the sound of music and lets its sweet, soft, mournful strains, which we have just described, be funneled into his soul through his ears, and gives up all his time to the glamorous moanings of song, the effect at first on his energy and initiative of mind, if he has any, is to soften it as iron is softened in a furnace, and made workable instead of hard and unworkable: but if he persists and does not break the enchantment, the next stage is that it melts and runs, till the spirit has quite run out of him and his mental sinews are cut.,."

2024-06-09 08:21:14

"Those who tell the stories rule society."

2024-06-08 20:21:33

"Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half."

2024-06-08 08:21:25

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

2024-06-07 20:21:15

"Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting."

2024-06-06 20:21:10

"He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him."

2024-06-06 08:21:26

"Is there a perfect world?"

2024-06-05 20:21:28

"There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power."

2024-06-05 08:21:15

"Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures."

2024-06-04 20:21:09

"A freeman ought not to be a slave in the acquisition of knowledge of any kind. Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."

2024-06-04 08:21:21

"No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the light, the darker that shadow becomes."

2024-06-03 08:21:24

"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."

2024-06-02 20:21:15

"I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools."

2024-06-02 08:22:10

"Have you not perceived that imitations, whether of bodily gestures, tones of voice, or modes of thought, if they be persevered in from an early age, are apt to grow into habits and a second nature?"

2024-06-01 20:22:03

"When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself."

2024-06-01 08:22:06

"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."

2024-05-31 20:22:06

"Must not all things at last be swallowed up in Death?"

2024-05-31 08:22:03

"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."

2024-05-30 20:21:56

"Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding."

2024-05-30 08:21:56

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

2024-05-29 20:22:02

2024-05-29 08:22:04

"Self-conquest is the greatest of victories."

2024-05-28 20:21:54

"The desires of the worthless many are controlled by the desires and knowledge of the decent few."

2024-05-28 08:22:02

"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life."

2024-05-27 08:22:06

"Courage is a kind of salvation. Courage is knowing what not to fear."

2024-05-26 20:22:00

"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."

2024-05-25 20:22:05

"No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death."

2024-05-24 08:22:02

"The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and hope..."

2024-05-23 20:22:04

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

2024-05-23 08:21:57

"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance."

2024-05-22 20:21:59

"You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters."

2024-05-22 08:21:56

"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."

2024-05-21 20:22:04

"Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains; some in desires, and some in fears; and some are cowards under the same conditions."

2024-05-21 08:21:56

"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?"

2024-05-20 20:22:10

"What kind of man am I? One of those who would be pleased to be refuted if I say anything untrue, and who would be pleased to refute anyone who says anything untrue; one who, however, wouldn’t be any less pleased to be refuted than to refute. For I count being refuted a greater good, insofar as it is a greater good for oneself to be delivered from the worst thing there is than to deliver someone else from it."

2024-05-20 08:22:11

"The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has in fact been followed throughout, the principle of one man one job, of minding ones own business, in the sense of doing the job for which one is naturally fitted and not interfering with other people."

2024-05-19 08:22:01

"Courage is a kind of salvation. Courage is knowing what not to fear."

2024-05-18 08:22:06

"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."

2024-05-17 20:22:00

"Everyone thinks because it is solely responsible for the wisdom or folly of his life, that is to say of his destiny."

2024-05-17 08:22:00

"The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge."

2024-05-16 08:22:01

"Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments."

2024-05-15 20:22:04

"You don’t seem to love money too much. And those who haven’t made their own money are usually like you. But those who have made it for themselves are twice as fond of it as those who haven’t."