PLATO - Incredible Life Changing Quotes [Stoicism] Part 1

be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle every heart sings a song incomplete until another heart whispers back those who wish to sing always find a song at the touch of a lover everyone becomes a poet [Music] Wiseman's speak because they have something to say fools because they have to say something 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 only the dead have seen the end of war [Music] the price good men pay for indifference to

public affairs is to be ruled by evil men 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 [Music] the heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself [Music] never discourage anyone who continually makes progress no matter how slow one of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors I am

the wisest man alive for I know one thing a nut is that I know nothing [Music] good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly while bad people will find a way around the laws ignorance the root and stem of every evil [Music] I'm trying to think don't confuse me with facts the measure of a man is what he does with power those who tell the stories rules society [Music] the madness of love is the greatest of heavens blessings human behavior flows from three main sources desire emotion and knowledge [Music] education is

teaching our children to desire the right things there are three classes of men lovers of wisdom lovers of honour and lovers of gain when men speak ill of a live so as nobody may believe [Music] there are two things a person should never be angry at what they can help and what they cannot in politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state when we are ill we do not ask for the handsomest physician or the most eloquent one [Music] courage is knowing what not

to fear how can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping and all our thoughts are a dream or whether we are awake and talking to one another in the waking State you should not honor men more than truth the beginning is the most important part of the work necessity is the mother of invention [Music] the object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful [Music] death is not the worst that can happen to men [Music] you're my star a stargazer too and I wish that I were heaven with a billion

eyes to look at you [Music] character is simply habit long-continued 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 musical innovation is full of danger to the state for when modes of music change the fundamental laws of the state always change with them a house that has a library in it has a soul [Music] the greatest wealth is to live content with little no man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the

end in their nature and education [Music] beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder [Music] good actions give strengths to ourselves and inspire good actions in others [Music] bodily exercise when compulsory does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses [Music] an empty vessel makes the loudest sound so they that have the least wit are the greatest fabulous 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 love is simply the name for desire and pursuit of the whole 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 writing is the geometry of the soul 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 love is the pursuit of the

whole [Music] if a man can be properly said to love something it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest [Music]