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“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
― Confucious

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Those who tell the stories rule society.”
― Plato

“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. ”
― Plato

“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
― Plato, The Republic

“Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder”
― Plato

“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies

“χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά

Nothing beautiful without struggle.”
― Plato, The Republic

“Books are immortal sons defying their sires.”
― Plato

“No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself”
― Plato

“No human thing is of serious importance.”
― Plato

“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”
― Plato

“All is flux, nothing stays still”
― Plato

“A dog has the soul of a philosopher.”
― Plato

“In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by...[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society.”
― Plato, Republic

“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.”
― Plato

“Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.”
― Plato

“Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.”
― Plato

“Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.”
― Plato

“Knowledge is the food of the soul.”
― Plato

“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life”
― Plato

“Philosophy is the highest music.”
― Plato

“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.”
― Plato, The Republic

“Ideas are the source of all things”
― Plato

“Time is the moving image of reality”
― Plato

“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.”
― Plato

“Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.”
― Plato, The Republic

“You know that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken....Shall we just carelessly allow children to hear any casual tales which may be devised by casual persons, and to receive into their minds ideas for the most part the very opposite of those which we should wish them to have when they are grown up?

We cannot....Anything received into the mind at that age is likely to become indelible and unalterable; and therefore it is most important that the tales which the young first hear should be models of virtuous thoughts....”
― Plato, The Republic

“Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being”
― Plato

“Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.”
― Plato, The Republic