No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
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Plato
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About Plato
Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher of Classical Athens who is most commonly considered the foundational thinker of the Western philosophical tradition. An innovator of the literary dialogue and dialectic forms, Plato influenced all the major areas of theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy, and was the founder of the Academy, a philosophical school in Athens where Plato taught the collection of philosophical theories that would later become known as Platonism.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by PlatoTo love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
Love is a serious mental disease.
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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.
Life must be lived as play.
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
I would fain grow old learning many things.
We do not learn and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
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 mis…
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
Knowledge is true opinion.
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.