with the studies of the freeborn man… No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory”
PLATO –“The best way of training the young is to train yourself at the same time. Do not admonish them but always carry out your own principles in practice.”
PLATO –“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
PLATO –“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.”
PLATO –“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
PLATO –“Who is good for anything ought not to beg his subjects to be ruled by him; although the present governors of mankind are of a different stamp; they may be justly compared to the mutinous sailors…”
PLATO –“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
PLATO-“It is the power of appearance that leads us astray.”
PLAUTUS –“I believe there is nothing amongst mankind swifter than remour.”
PLAUTUS– “If you speak insult, you shall also hear them.”
PLINY THE ELDER –“It is far from easy to determine whether she (Nature) has proved to be a kind parent or a merciless stepmother.”
PLOTINUS –“Harmonies unheard create the harmonies we hear and
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