Good actions can strengthen ourselves and inspire good actions to others.
PlatoIt is impossible to improve the world if first the man does not improve
PlatoPhilosophy begins in wonder." -Plato
PlatoWars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
PlatoTags: philosophy war greed
Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.
PlatoTags: money rich insult wealthy
the useful is the noble and the hurtful is the base
PlatoFor he, Adeimantus, whose mind is fixed upon true being, has surely no time to look down upon the affairs of earth, or to be filled with malice and envy, contending against men
PlatoAny one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye
PlatoWhereas, our argument shows that the power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already; and that just as the eye was unable to turn from darkness to light without the whole body, so too the instrument of knowledge can only by the movement of the whole soul be turned from the world of becoming into that of being, and learn by degrees to endure the sight of being, and of the brightest and best of being, or in other words, of the good.
Platothose who govern ought not to be lovers of the task? For, if they are, there will be rival lovers, and they will fight.
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