A well begun is half ended.
Plato
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A well begun is half ended.
A. C. BENSON Well begun is half done.
ARISTOTLE Many lose through never starting. A job well begun is half done.
ORRIN WOODWARD What's well begun, is half done.
[Lat., Dimidium facti qui coepit habet.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) If Well begun means Half done, then Possible means Half + quarter done. Then just do the remaining q...
SATHESH KUMAR M Our love had begun in folly, and ended in madness!
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BRYAN CUPITO The phony surrender's over; the ceasefire has ended. The final fight for the Republic has begun.
MARIE LU To have begun is to have done half the task; dare to be wise.
HORACE The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Dimidium facti qui coepit habet: sapere aude" ("He who has begun is half done: dare to know!").
HORACE He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
HORACE He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!
HORACE Plato is boring.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Plato's dialogues bear...
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K. ASHRAFUL KABIR Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.
ROBIN A.H. WATERFIELD All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
GEORGE SANTAYANA All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
GEORGE SANTIANO All is well ended, if the suit be won.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Plato was a bore.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Speaking as somebody who is half English and half Hungarian, World War I still seems to me a familia...
MICHAEL KORDA The process has begun. This will take about one-and-a-half months. We are trying to do it faster.
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TOM MORRIS Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations ...
E. M. CIORAN a problem well put is half solved.
JOHN DEWEY They shot the ball well in spurts. They had us down 18-7 to start out the game, but we closed the ga...
ROCKY PETERSON "If you're cup is half empty, you can blame it on others, or you can fill it up yourself.."
REZA FARIVAR It must be so - Plato, thou reason'st well! -/ Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, / T...
JOSEPH ADDISON The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revi...
KIM NOVAK The Establishment Won't Be Satisfied Until They Have Turned Us All Into Plato's Cavemen
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MIKE BROWN A painting that is well composed is half finished.
PIERRE BONNARD Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
ARISTOTLE A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.
CHARLES KETTERING A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
CHARLES F. KETTERING A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
CHARLES FRANKLIN KETTERING A problem well stated is a problem half solved
CHARLES F. KETTERING All's well that carries on well
AMIT ABRAHAM If half of a country is rotten, the other half will soon start rotting as well!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his serva...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
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GREG WALL Plato, to incline to Christianity.
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E.A. BUCCHIANERI Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
ISAAC NEWTON Life is a joke that's just begun.
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TYRONE JOHNSON For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA Half of this story is true and the other half might very well have happened.
WILLIAM PèNE DU BOIS Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to thos...
PLATO I was trying to be magician and ended up......... well, trying to be a magician
MANGESH DESAI No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That...
C. JOYBELL C. Plato says the purpose of philosophy is to teach us how to die.
JHUMPA LAHIRI We have a group as eclectic as any coalition anyone has ever seen. The top half of the first inning ...
MATT KELLER Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.
MICHAEL SHERMER Love is a battle lost before even begun.
FRéDéRIC BEIGBEDER I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of WERNER HEISENBERG With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press for...
EDWARD BELLAMY Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as wel...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as wel...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Well, well, well I am trap in well, half way to hell.
DEYTH BANGER It's too bad, but that's the way it is in Caribbean baseball. After Cedeno had begun to pitch well, ...
FERNANDO RAVELO A dead heart is a dead life; keep your heart alive; let your heart beat for something unique!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I like half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as y...
LORD OF THE RINGS Well, I was living it, but a shared dream half-lived is a hollow thing
JACQUELINE CAREY Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The market has done well in the year following a recession. We think the recession has ended.
ALAN SKRAINKA We had to do some scrambling, but all seems to have ended well.
MIKE ARESCO He who is well prepared has half won the battle.
PROVERB It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
NAPOLEON HILL I was seven for eight on three pointers in the first half. I ended up sitting most of the second hal...
BROCK ZYLSTRA This game is always a big one. We were lethargic in the first half, we didn't execute well and showe...
JEFF BEEMAN The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a...
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ALFRED WHITEHEAD The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD The fact is, we didn't get the fuel mileage the other teams got, ... As a result, we ended up having...
RICKY CRAVEN Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.
EMILE ZOLA Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men
are caught by it as fish by a hook....
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, a...
RITA RUDNER It is impossible to expect that things will improve in a short period of time at Sony, ... The compa...
MASAKI ISO The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.
LIBBY HOUSTON It goes back to the Greeks. Plato was an idealist, Aristotle was a materialist.
JENNIFER FREDERICK Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back."
-Plato
JESSICA CLARE Hold him alone truly fortunate who has ended his life in happy
well-being.
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CAROL STONE Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
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PLATO The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
PLATO He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
PLATO As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
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PLATO Life must be lived as play.
PLATO Necessity... the mother of invention.
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PLATO They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
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PLATO Even the gods love jokes.
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PLATO The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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PLATO Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
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PLATO The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair
Across the tide to see her image there:
Then looking u...
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PLATO Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
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PLATO This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
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PLATO Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
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