The Most Inspirational Wisdom of Plato
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
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🗓️ 13 June 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Listen to episode 805 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Most Inspirational Wisdom of Plato. Edited and adapted from the works of Plato.
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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: “We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.” - Plato
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the inspirational living podcast. |
| 0:15.9 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from the Greek philosopher Plato. |
| 0:27.4 | Every heart sings a song incomplete, until another heart whispers back. |
| 0:35.3 | Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, |
| 0:42.3 | everyone becomes a poet. Wise people speak because they have something to say. F fools because they have to say something. |
| 0:57.0 | We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men and women are afraid of the light. |
| 1:10.0 | No matter how hard you can when men and women are afraid of the light. |
| 1:16.6 | No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, |
| 1:19.6 | and the closer you get to the light, |
| 1:22.6 | the darker that shadow becomes. |
| 1:28.3 | The price good people pay for indifference to public affairs |
| 1:33.3 | is to be ruled by evil politicians. |
| 1:40.3 | Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness, but direct them to education by what amuses |
| 1:50.0 | their minds, so that you may better be able to discover with accuracy the peculiar ben of their |
| 1:58.3 | own genius. |
| 2:01.6 | Human behavior flows from three main sources, desire, emotion, and knowledge. |
| 2:14.6 | Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. |
| 2:20.3 | Courage is knowing what not to fear. Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. |
| 2:42.0 | A library of wisdom is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. |
| 2:46.0 | Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books. |
| 3:01.3 | According to Diotima, love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people and the objects of their desire. |
| 3:13.3 | Love is neither wise nor beautiful, but is rather the desire for wisdom and beauty. |
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