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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Plato
Death is not the worst than can happen to men.
Plato
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
Plato
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
Plato
Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.
Plato
Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
Plato
Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Plato
No human thing is of serious importance.
Plato
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Plato
There is no such thing as a lover's oath.
Plato
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
Plato
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Plato
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Plato
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Plato, Dialogues, Apology
You cannot conceive the many without the one.
Plato, Dialogues, Parmenides
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo
The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.
Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo
Friends have all things in common.
Plato, Dialogues, Phaedrus
The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.
Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Plato, The Republic
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato, The Republic
Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
Plato, The Republic
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
Plato, The Republic
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Plato, The Republic
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
Plato, The Republic
Necessity, who is the mother of invention.
Plato, The Republic
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato, The Republic |