Plato

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. ↗

— Plato

#kindness #fighting

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. ↗

— Plato

#another #back #becomes #every #every heart

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. ↗

— Plato

#fools #men #say #something #speak

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. ↗

— Plato

#imagination

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. ↗

— Plato

#men

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. ↗

— Plato

#child #dark #easily #forgive #life

Only the dead have seen the end of war. ↗

— Plato

#end #only #seen #war

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. ↗

— Plato

#education #mentoring #philosophy #education

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself. ↗

— Plato

#inferiority #politics #rule #political

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. ↗

— Plato

#conversation #discover #hour #more #person