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Famous Quotes Here's some of my Favorite Quotes, by Plato. One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you are governed by your inferiors Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet We can easily forgive a 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 Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, While bad people will find a way around the laws Love is a serious mental disease. People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, And the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery Out of the most extreme liberty 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 A good decision is based on knowledge and not numbers Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange of virtue Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods Democracy... is a charming form of government full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion and knowledge Let parents bequeath to their not riches, but the spirit of reverence There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and<b> philosophy </font></b>thus come into the same hands Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other mans concerns The greatest wealth is to live content with little There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help and what they cannot All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one workman, and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto GOD is the poor peasant as the mighty prince Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance We are twice armed if we fight with faith No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom No man should bring into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself, to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser Courage is knowing what not to fear Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance Death is not the worst that can happen to men Philosophy is the highest music 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 The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery 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. - Plato ----------------------------------------------------------------- When I read these, I think back to this show I used to watch and loved! When Billy Batson had to change, He'd say: Oh Elders Fleet and Strong and Wise, Appear before My Seeking eyes!! SHAZAM!!! Some things in Life You won't forget, Like twirlin' tongues n swappin' spit! OoohLa LaLa Laa, Ah U |
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