Plato Quotes, Kindness Quotes

Kindness which is bestowed on the good is never lost.

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In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions.

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The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole of life.

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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

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Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

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If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

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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.

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No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul

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Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

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The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that which the enduing self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily.

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The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.

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In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.

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We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.

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From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the world order.

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There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.

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Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods.

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