Plato
Ancient Greece
-427 // -347
Philosopher / Mathematician
-427 // -347
Philosopher / Mathematician
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Courage is knowing what not to fear
Courage is a kind of salvation
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle
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
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
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand
Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it
He did not wish to be believed to be the best but to be it
Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god
Through obedience learn to command
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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."
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