Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent",
in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".
Yes, if he is to have true music in him.
PlatoAttention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
Plato[there are] two kinds of things the nature of which it would be quite wonderful to grasp by means of a systematic art...
the first consists in seeing together things that are scattered about everywhere and collecting them into one kind, so that by defining each thing we can make clear the subject of any instruction we wish to give...
[the second], in turn, is to be able to cut up each kind according to its species along its natural joints, and to try not to splinter any part, as a bad butcher might do...
phaedrus, i myself am a lover of these divisions and collections, so that i may be able to think and to speak.
This and no other is the root from
which a tyrant springs; when he
first appears he is a protector.
καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ
PlatoWriting is the geometry of the soul.
PlatoTags: writing
Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
PlatoFor a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
He was a wise man who invented beer
The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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