Plato
" The only thing he ought to
consider, if he does anything, is whether he does right or wrong, whether it is what a
good man does or a bad man." "Rhythm and harmony find their way into the
inward places of the soul." "Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards
and leads us from this world to another." "Not one of them who took up in his youth
with this opinion that there are no gods, ever continued until old age faithful to his
conviction." He best keeps from anger who remembers that God
is always looking upon him. "When men speak ill of thee, live so as
nobody may believe "Democracy is a charming form of government,
full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal
alike. " "Excess generally causes reaction, and
produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in
individuals, or in governments." "Honesty is for the most par tless
profitable than "I have good hope that there is something
after death." "States are as the men, they grow out of
human characters." "The beginning is the most important part of
the work. " "Let nobody speak mischief of anybody. " "They deem him their worst enemy who tells
them the "Wealth is well known to be a great
comforter. " "Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of
great anxiety. " "The only thing worse than suffering an
injustice is committing an injustice." |