influence Quotes

We are convinced by a speaker's good character when their speech makes us trust them. We believe good people more easily and completely than others, especially when there's no definite answer and opinions are split.

Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.

... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and actually become bad through each other's influence). But the friendship of the good is good, and increases in... ...

When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.

95% of everything you do is the result of habit.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

Fate of empires depends on the education of youth