Plato
Ancient Greece
-427 // -347
Philosopher / Mathematician
-427 // -347
Philosopher / Mathematician
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Knowledge is true opinion
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 never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden
He was a wise man who invented beer
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty
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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