Plato
Ancient Greece
-427 // -347
Philosopher / Mathematician
-427 // -347
Philosopher / Mathematician
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For the fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretended knowledge of the unknown; and no one knows whether death, which men in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. Is there not here conceit of knowledge, which is a disgraceful sort of ignorance?
Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right
Do not then train boys to learning by force and harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds
Books are the immortal sons deifying their sires
Attention to health is life greatest hindrance
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet
As the government is, such will be the man
All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate
All men, well interrogated, answer well
Abstinence is the surety of temperance
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
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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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