![IMAGE: The first and best [greatest] victory is to conquer self [yourself]; to be conquered by self [yourself] is of all things most shameful and vile.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/book-2127252_640-200x133.jpg)
The first and best [greatest] victory is to conquer self [yourself]; to be conquered by self [yourself] is of all things most shameful and vile. – Plato [Platon] (427 – 347B.C.) / (I count him braver…) (Image by moritz320 from… More »
![IMAGE: Wise men speak [talk] because they have something to say; fools (speak [talk]) because they have to say something.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/bronze-610837_640-200x133.jpg)
Wise men speak [talk] because they have something to say; fools (speak [talk]) because they have to say something. – Plato [Platon] (427 – 347B.C.) / (or, Author Unknown?) (Image by mvivirito0 from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using… More »
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 [Platon] (427 – 347B.C.) More »
![IMAGE: Love is blind. [(La.) Amor caecus est.] // The lover is blinded about the beloved, and prefers his own interests to truth and right.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/statue-142195_640-200x150.jpg)
Love is blind. [(La.) Amor caecus est.] / The lover is blinded about the beloved, and prefers his own interests to truth and right. – Plato [Platon] (427 – 347B.C.): Laws (translated from Greek to English by Benjamin Jowett (1817… More »
![IMAGE: Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. [Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. / Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ai-generated-9017144_640-100x67.jpg)
