Plato
"Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance."
- Plato (427?-347? B.C.)
"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired
under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."
-- Plato(427?-347? B. C.) [The Republic. Book VII. 536]
The life that is unexamined is not worth living.
Plato (B.C. 427?-347?)
"Necessity, who is the mother of invention."
-- Plato(427?-347? B. C.) [The Republic. Book II. 369-C]
"The beginning is the most important part of the work."
-- Plato(427?-347? B. C.) [The Republic. Book II. 377-B]
"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."
-- Plato(427?-347? B. C.) [The Republic. Book VII. 529]
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired
under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
-- Plato (The Republic Book VII, 536)
"Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a
sort of equality to equals and unequals alike."
-- Plato(427?-347? B. C.) [The Republic. Book VIII. 558]
"What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts
upon them, and recited in simple prose."
-- Plato(427?-347? B. C.) [The Republic. Book X. 601-B]
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
"They certainly give very strange names to diseases."
-- Plato
"And what is good, Phaedrus? And what is not good? Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?"
-- Plato [Symposium]
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great
cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater
misfortune.
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every
other earthly combat.
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have least with are the greatest babblers.
Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.
The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads; they see all things the wrong way.
They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
He was a wise man who invented God.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell.
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