The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Quote by Plato
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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Plato Quotes
- Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
- He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
- There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
- Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
- Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
- Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
- The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
- No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
- Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
- Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
Best Quotes
- Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.
- The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
- No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life.
- People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
- Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
- It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
- Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.
- I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
- Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.