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If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

Government, Political, Politics

Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

Reality, Mind

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

Plato, Hero, Speak

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

Wise, Plato, Men

The right question is usually more important than the right answer.

Important, Answers, Right Answers

Be kind. Every person you meet is fighting a difficult battle.

Fighting, Battle, Be Kind

The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

Art, Philosophy, History

The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.

Practice, Plant

Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.

Children, Fire, Light

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

Children, Different, Way

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato, Work, Acceptance

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!

Advice, Progress, Matter

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Wise, Wisdom, Witty

Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.

Atheist, Ignorance, Roots

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.

Philosophical, Doe, Tao

Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.

Patience, Tasks, Wells

We become what we contemplate.

Contemplating

When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.

Grateful, Great Things, Feels

Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

Desire, Poverty, Wealth

Love is a serious mental disease.

Love, Plato, Romance

To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.

Important, Quests, Courageous

The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind and the body are one and should not be treated separately!

Mistake, Mind, Physicians

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.

Fear, Self, Deception

Plato, Harold North Fowler (1926). “Plato: with an English translation”

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Im Sorry, Apology, Men

Plato (2016). “The Republic”, Xist Publishing

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".

Practice, Skills, Excellence

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