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MIND
“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss
people.” - Socrates
“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.” - Socrates
“A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.” - Plato
"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind." - Plato
“Human beings are curious by nature.” - Aristotle
"The energy of the mind is the essence of life." - Aristotle
WISDOM & EDUCATION
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” - Socrates
“Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.” - Socrates
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” - Plato
“Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.” - Plato
"Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach." - Aristotle
"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead." - Aristotle
HAPPINESS
"The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” - Socrates
"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.” - Socrates
“Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.” - Plato
"Life must be lived as play." - Plato
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” - Aristotle
“Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.” - Aristotle
SOCIETY & RELATIONS
"Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?” - Socrates
“Understanding a question is half an answer.” - Socrates
“The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.” - Plato
“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.” - Plato
“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.” - Aristotle
“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.” - Aristotle
ACTION
“Every action has its pleasures and its price.” - Socrates
“Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.” - Socrates
“The first and best victory is to conquer self.” - Plato
"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work." - Plato
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.” - Aristotle
“Through discipline comes freedom.” - Aristotle
LOVE & KINDNESS
“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.” - Socrates
"In every person there is a sun. Just let them shine.” - Socrates
“Love is the pursuit of the whole.” - Plato
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” - Plato
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." - Aristotle
“What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.” - Aristotle