Thread by @WealthInc247, 38 Famous Philosophical Quotes by Plato To Be Inspired**THREAD** 1. The first [...]

38 Famous Philosophical Quotes by Plato To Be Inspired

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1. The first and best victory is to conquer self

2. True friendship can exist only between equals.

3. 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.

4. No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself

5. Those who tell the stories rule society.

6. Knowledge is the food of the soul.

7. The measure of a man is what he does with power.

8. Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

9. Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being

10. Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.

11. Ideas are the source of all things

12. Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.

13. There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

14. In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.

15. To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

16. Courage is knowing what not to fear.

17. Character is simply habit long continued.

18. Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.

19. Necessity is the mother of invention.

20. There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

21. Excellence is not a gift but a skill that takes practice. We do not act rightly because we are excellent; in fact, we achieve excellence by acting rightly.

22. Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

23. Nothing beautiful without struggle.

24. Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

25. 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.

26. Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

27. 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.

28. Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

29. No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

30. There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

31. The beginning is the most important part of the work.

32. Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty

33. good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws

34. Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.

35. Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

36. Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

37. 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.

38. One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

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