Plato
Ancient Greece
-427 // -347
Philosopher / Mathematician
-427 // -347
Philosopher / Mathematician
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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
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Necessity... the mother of invention
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything
Man - a being in search of meaning
Love is a serious mental disease
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays