![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: The usefulness of (the) useless. [Everyone knows the usefulness of useful things, but no one knows the usefulness of useless things. / Everyone knows the use of the useful, but not the use of the useless.] (Even if something did not bring immediate benefit, it could still turn out to be valuable.)](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/place-name-sign-822236_640-100x71.jpg)
![IMAGE: (Like) A bolt from the blue. [A bolt out of the blue.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/thunder-1368797_1920trim640-100x75.jpg)
