“Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.”
Men“Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.”
Inspirational“Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.”
Men“There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.”
Anger“He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.”
Good“To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.”
Good“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.”
Education“Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.”
Alone“Science is nothing but perception.”
Science“I would fain grow old learning many things.”
Learning“Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.”
Inspirational“One man cannot practice many arts with success.”
Success“Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.”
Good“Courage is a kind of salvation.”
Courage“Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.”
Wisdom“And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.”
Food“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 philosophy thus come into the same hands.”
Power“Life must be lived as play.”
Life“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.”
Knowledge“There's a victory, and defeat the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.”
Best“Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.”
Change“Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.”
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