74 quotes
"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."
- Plato
Love
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."
- Plato
Love
"The madness of love the greatest of heaven’s blessings."
- Plato
Love
"Every heart sings a song incomplete until another heart whispers back."
- Plato
Love
"Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature."
- Plato
Love
"Love is a grave mental disease."
- Plato
Love
"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back."
- Plato
Love
"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."
- Plato
Love
"The madness of love, the greatest of heaven’s blessings."
- Plato
Love
"As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves."
- Plato
Love
"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods."
- Plato
Love
"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, Until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing Always find a song."
- Plato
Love
"He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, you and age are equally a burden."
- Plato
Balance
"Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person."
- Plato
Compassion
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
- Plato
Compassion
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle."
- Plato
Compassion
"Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a battle."
- Plato
Compassion
"Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person."
- Plato
Compassion
"Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
- Plato
Compassion
"We can easily forgive a kid afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
- Plato
Hope
"To be curious about that which is not one’s concern while still in ignorance of oneself is absurd."
- Plato
Self-awareness
"There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot."
- Plato
Self-awareness
"The measure of a man is what he does with power."
- Plato
Integrity
"“The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”"
- Plato
Courage
"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."
- Plato
Courage
"We are twice armed if we fight with faith."
- Plato
Courage
"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"
- Plato
Courage
""Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.""
- Plato
Inspiration
"The measure of a person is what they do with power."
- Plato
Inspiration
"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."
- Plato
Motivation
"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."
- Plato
Creativity
"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."
- Plato
Learning
"Do not…keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play."
- Plato
Learning
"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."
- Plato
Leadership
"The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself."
- Plato
Leadership
"No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself."
- Plato
Inner Peace
"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
- Plato
Responsibility
"No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education."
- Plato
Responsibility
"I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win some noble renown."
- Plato
Ambition
"You can discover more about a person in a hour of play than a year of conversation."
- Plato
Insight
"Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance."
- Plato
Health
"Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it."
- Plato
Health
"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."
- Plato
Contentment
"If you are happy and calm, you will hardly experience the pressure that comes with age."
- Plato
Contentment
"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."
- Plato
Education
"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future."
- Plato
Education
"To sing well and to dance is to be well educated."
- Plato
Education
"Do not train children to learn by force and 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."
- Plato
Education
"Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else, rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it."
- Plato
Education
"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."
- Plato
Education
"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things."
- Plato
Education
"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life."
- Plato
Education
"Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life."
- Plato
Education
"Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you have escaped not from one master but from many."
- Plato
Wisdom
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
- Plato
Wisdom
"The beginning is the most important part of the work."
- Plato
New Beginnings
"Life begins at 30—the age of reason, maturity, and career aspirations."
- Plato
New Beginnings
"The beginning is the most important park of the work."
- Plato
New Beginnings
"A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts great things."
- Plato
Gratitude
"A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things."
- Plato
Gratitude
"The first and best victory is to conquer self."
- Plato
Self-improvement
"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories."
- Plato
Self-improvement
"Nothing beautiful without struggle."
- Plato
Perseverance
"Reality is created by the mind; we can change our reality by changing our mind."
- Plato
Mindfulness
"Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety."
- Plato
Philosophy
"The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died."
- Plato
Philosophy
"Life must be lived as if it were a game."
- Plato
Philosophy
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything."
- Plato
Spirituality
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything."
- Plato
Spirituality
"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."
- Plato
Knowledge
"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."
- Plato
Knowledge
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance."
- Plato
Knowledge
"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion and knowledge."
- Plato
Knowledge
"Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence."
- Plato
Morality