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2026-03-14 18:21:08 UTC

"No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern."

2026-03-14 06:21:06 UTC

"The true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and, at last, knows what the essence of beauty is."

2026-03-13 18:21:07 UTC

"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing."

2026-03-13 06:21:08 UTC

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

2026-03-12 18:21:07 UTC

"Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may."

2026-03-12 06:21:07 UTC

"The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge."

2026-03-11 18:21:07 UTC

"He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it."

2026-03-11 06:21:06 UTC

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

2026-03-10 18:21:07 UTC

"There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good."

2026-03-10 06:21:07 UTC

"Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree."

2026-03-09 18:21:07 UTC

"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."

2026-03-09 06:21:07 UTC

"Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or better than cohesion and unity?"

2026-03-08 18:21:07 UTC

"Ideas are the source of all things."

2026-03-08 06:21:07 UTC

"Let nobody speak mischief of anybody."

2026-03-07 18:21:07 UTC

"The wrong use of a thing is far worse than the non-use."

2026-03-07 06:21:07 UTC

"The tools that would teach men their own use would be beyond price."

2026-03-06 18:21:06 UTC

"I used to imagine that no human can make men good; but I know better now."

2026-03-06 06:21:07 UTC

"As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him."

2026-03-05 18:21:07 UTC

"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."

2026-03-05 06:21:08 UTC

"Love is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that which he is or has."

2026-03-04 18:21:08 UTC

"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."

2026-03-04 06:21:09 UTC

"Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own."

2026-03-03 18:21:07 UTC

"Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul."

2026-03-03 06:21:06 UTC

"There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good."

2026-03-02 18:21:08 UTC

"The matter is as it is in all other cases: If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.,."

2026-03-02 06:21:07 UTC

"The helpful is beautiful; only the harmful is ugly."

2026-03-01 18:21:08 UTC

"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."

2026-03-01 06:21:07 UTC

"Of necessity, the most like are most full of envy, strife, and hatred of one another, and the most unlike of friendship. For the poor man is compelled to be the friend of the rich, and the weak requires the aid of the strong, and the sick man of the physician; everyone who knows not has to love and court him who knows."

2026-02-28 18:21:07 UTC

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

2026-02-28 06:21:07 UTC

"The thing to be done does not choose, I imagine, to tarry the leisure of the doer, but the doer must be at the beck of the thing to be done, and not treat it as a secondary affair."

2026-02-27 18:21:45 UTC

"If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life."

2026-02-27 06:21:27 UTC

"I used to imagine that no human can make men good; but I know better now."

2026-02-26 18:21:07 UTC

"Life is a short exile."

2026-02-26 06:21:08 UTC

"I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning."

2026-02-25 18:21:12 UTC

"I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.,."

2026-02-25 06:21:06 UTC

"The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death."

2026-02-24 18:21:07 UTC

"But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?"

2026-02-24 06:21:07 UTC

"There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power."

2026-02-23 18:21:07 UTC

"The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction."

2026-02-23 06:21:07 UTC

"Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil."

2026-02-22 18:21:07 UTC

"Are you not ashamed that you give your attention to acquiring as much money as possible, and similarly with reputation and honor, and give no attention or thought to truth and understanding and the perfection of your soul?"

2026-02-22 06:21:06 UTC

"Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the fill the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas receives nothing from like.,."

2026-02-21 18:21:08 UTC

"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."

2026-02-21 06:21:07 UTC

"The eyes are the windows of the soul."

2026-02-20 18:21:07 UTC

"He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god."

2026-02-20 06:21:07 UTC

"If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life."

2026-02-19 18:21:07 UTC

"Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul."

2026-02-19 06:21:07 UTC

"Is there a perfect world?"

2026-02-18 18:21:08 UTC

"No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return."

2026-02-18 06:21:07 UTC

"This feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy."

2026-02-17 18:21:07 UTC

"The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation."

2026-02-17 06:21:07 UTC

"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories."

2026-02-16 18:21:07 UTC

"That's what education should be ... the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way."

2026-02-16 06:21:07 UTC

"The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful."

2026-02-15 18:21:07 UTC

"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."

2026-02-15 06:21:07 UTC

"Everyone seeks his half."

2026-02-14 18:21:07 UTC

"Wealth is well known to be a great comforter."

2026-02-14 06:21:06 UTC

"He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity."

2026-02-13 18:21:08 UTC

"The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another."

2026-02-13 06:21:06 UTC

"Is there a perfect world?"

2026-02-12 18:21:08 UTC

"Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors."

2026-02-12 06:21:07 UTC

"This feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy."

2026-02-11 18:21:07 UTC

"Love is of the beautiful, and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires the good."

2026-02-11 06:21:06 UTC

"It's not at all uncommon to find a person's desires compelling him to go against his reason, and to see him cursing himself and venting his passion on the source of the compulsion within him. It's as if there were two warring factions, with passion fighting on the side of reason."

2026-02-10 18:21:16 UTC

"The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper, often only a spark, to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls, by rare fortune, are detained longer, have time to grasp a handful of tapers, which they weave into a torch. These are the torch-bearers of humanity, its poets, seers, and saints, who lead and lift the race out of darkness, toward the light. They are the law-givers and saviors, the light-bringers, way-showers and truth-tellers, and without them, humanity would lose its way in the dark."

2026-02-10 06:21:08 UTC

"Will life be worth having, if that higher part of man be destroyed, which is improved by justice and depraved by injustice?"

2026-02-09 18:21:06 UTC

"Those who tell the stories rule society."

2026-02-09 06:21:46 UTC

"Certainly we shall have to look to ourselves, and try to find someone who will help in some way or other to improve us."

2026-02-08 18:21:57 UTC

"The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and hope..."

2026-02-08 06:21:47 UTC

"Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others."

2026-02-07 18:21:46 UTC

"States are as the men, they grow out of human characters."

2026-02-07 06:21:46 UTC

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2026-02-06 18:21:46 UTC

"It seems to me that many fall into it even against their will, and fancy they are discussing, when they are merely debating, because they cannot distinguish the meanings of a term, in their investigation of any question, but carry on their opposition to what is stated, by attacking the mere words, employing the art of debate, and not that of philosophical discussion."

2026-02-06 06:21:46 UTC

"Those whose hearts are fixed on reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers."

2026-02-05 18:21:46 UTC

"There are three arts which are concerned with all things. One which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them."

2026-02-05 06:21:46 UTC

"Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or better than cohesion and unity?"

2026-02-04 18:21:45 UTC

"The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant."

2026-02-04 06:21:45 UTC

"No tools will make a man a skilled workmen, or master of defense, or be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them and has never bestowed any attention on them."

2026-02-03 18:21:47 UTC

"No man should bring children into world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education."

2026-02-03 06:21:47 UTC

"Does not every man love that which he deems noble and just and good, and hate the opposite of them? people regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them."

2026-02-02 18:21:48 UTC

"If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life."

2026-02-02 06:21:45 UTC

"A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand."

2026-02-01 18:21:47 UTC

"A work well begun is half ended."

2026-02-01 06:21:46 UTC

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

2026-01-31 18:21:46 UTC

"Haven't you noticed that opinion without knowledge is always a poor thing? At the best it is blind—isn't anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding like a blind man on the right road?"

2026-01-31 06:21:46 UTC

"The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings."

2026-01-30 18:21:47 UTC

"The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation."

2026-01-30 06:21:45 UTC

"Philosophy is the highest music."

2026-01-29 18:21:46 UTC

"Either never, or very seldom, do the quiet actions in life appear to be better than the quick and energetic ones."

2026-01-29 06:21:48 UTC

"The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings."

2026-01-28 18:21:47 UTC

"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty."

2026-01-28 06:21:46 UTC

"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories."

2026-01-27 18:21:47 UTC

"Everything that deceives may be said to enchant."

2026-01-27 06:21:46 UTC

"The like is not the friend of the like in as far as he is like; still the good may be the friend of the good in as far as he is good."

2026-01-26 18:21:47 UTC

"I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning."

2026-01-26 06:22:17 UTC

"No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death."

2026-01-25 18:22:26 UTC

"Excellence must be the health and wellbeing of the soul."

2026-01-25 06:21:46 UTC

"Men say that we ought not to enquire into the supreme God and the nature of the universe, nor busy ourselves in searching out the causes of things, and that such enquiries are impious; whereas the very opposite is the truth."

2026-01-24 18:22:26 UTC

"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."

2026-01-24 06:21:45 UTC

"Beauty is the splendor of truth."