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ANCIENT QUOTES / MENTAL WELLNESS
Practical World Sayings That Will Make You Think (5)
Here for you to think about, here is number five
I find ancient quotes truly interesting today, yet as a youngster… not so much I’m afraid. Heck, anything to do with literature I staid well clear off. My love for writing forever steered it’s course towards the world of the fiction genre.
Many of the great philosophers from our ancient existence on Earth definitely had a way with words.
Take for example, Plato. He was an Athenian philosopher (circa 428–347 B.C.) and was deemed by many as one of the most important figures of the Ancient Greek world, and the entire history of Western thought.
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
To me, his quote speaks reams about how vital it is to pay attention to starting out with anything that you do in life.
In other words, get it right from the very first get-go, and you shouldn’t go far wrong with the rest, in helping you in sticking to the original plan, stopping you from going off-topic.
