We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light? — Plato Copy Share Image
Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality. — Plato Copy Share Image
I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power. — Plato Copy Share Image
This alone is to be feared: the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of spirit. — Plato Copy Share Image
Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men. — Plato Copy Share Image
No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if… — Plato Copy Share Image
Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our… — Plato Copy Share Image
Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. — Plato Copy Share Image
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we… — Plato Copy Share Image
The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown. — Plato Copy Share Image
“[T]hose who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.” — Plato Copy Share Image
No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. — Plato Copy Share Image
“I certainly have many enemies, and this is what will be my destruction if I am destroyed; of that I am certain;… — Plato Copy Share Image
“It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning and to see the good but to be willing… — Plato Copy Share Image
What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,...… — Plato Copy Share Image
And a democracy, I suppose, comes into being when the poor, winning the victory, put to death some of the other party,… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Cookery simulates the disguise of medicine, and pretends to know what food is the best for the body; and if the physician… — Plato Copy Share Image
Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the… — Plato Copy Share Image
And now I depart hence condemned by you to suffer the penalty of death, and they, too, go their ways condemned by… — Plato Copy Share Image
“To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not; for it is to think one knows… — Plato Copy Share Image
But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs… — Plato Copy Share Image
“if someone got to see the Beautiful itself, absolute, pure, unmixed, not polluted by human flesh or colors or any other great… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Not much time will be gained, O Athenians, in return for the evil name which you will get from the detractors of… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Let us reflect in another way, and we shall see that there is great reason to hope that death is a good;… — Plato Copy Share Image
“if you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange...they all consider death… — Plato Copy Share Image
No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man. — Plato Copy Share Image
A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods. — Plato Copy Share Image
No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse,… — Plato Copy Share Image
To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one… — Plato Copy Share Image
“For the fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretence of knowing the unknown;… — Plato Copy Share Image
“To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; it is to… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Plato is widely believed to have been a student of Socrates and to have been deeply influenced by his teacher's unjust death.… — Plato Copy Share Image
O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall… — Plato Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share
You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls. — Plato Copy Share
“If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is… — Plato Copy Share
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at… — Plato Copy Share
“The love of man to woman is a thing common and of course, and at first partakes more of instinct and passion than of… — Plato Copy Share
Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that dares to… — Plato Copy Share
For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm… — Plato Copy Share
“What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not beauty itself, and who are incapable… — Plato Copy Share
We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men… — Plato Copy Share
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