“Of course, he said, he who is of a certain nature, is like those who are of a certain nature; he who… — Plato Copy Share Image
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. — Plato Copy Share Image
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue. — Plato Copy Share Image
“All men are by nature equal, and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty… — Plato Copy Share Image
Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up. — Plato Copy Share Image
“How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato)” — Plato Copy Share Image
Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape,… — Plato Copy Share Image
The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and… — Plato Copy Share Image
From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less… — Plato Copy Share Image
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign… — Plato Copy Share Image
“For he, Adeimantus, whose mind is fixed upon true being, has surely no time to look down upon the affairs of earth,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one… — Plato Copy Share Image
Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and on earth; and he who would be blessed and happy… — Plato Copy Share Image
Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness… — Plato Copy Share Image
Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals… — Plato Copy Share Image
“the good are not so by nature...For if they were, this would follow: if the good were so by nature, we would… — Plato Copy Share Image
Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason,… — Plato Copy Share Image
“So if anyone is to declare how the all was in this way genuinely born, he must also mix in the form… — Plato Copy Share Image
The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of… — Plato Copy Share Image
Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if… — Plato Copy Share Image
So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent… — Plato Copy Share Image
Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time,… — Plato Copy Share Image
“They say that to do injustice is, by nature, good; to suffer injustice, evil, but that the evil is greater than the… — Plato Copy Share Image
“[there are] two kinds of things the nature of which it would be quite wonderful to grasp by means of a systematic… — Plato Copy Share Image
“he who would proceed in due course should love first one fair form, and then many, and learn the connexion of them;… — Plato Copy Share Image
“By such reflections and by the continuance in them of a divine nature, th qualities which we have described grew and increased… — Plato Copy Share Image
The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is… — Plato Copy Share Image
No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do… — Plato Copy Share Image
All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue. — Plato Copy Share Image
So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic. — Plato Copy Share Image
Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned. — Plato Copy Share Image
And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties… — Plato Copy Share Image
Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one… — Plato Copy Share Image
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear… — 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
![“Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all these were in a state devoid of reason or measure, but when the work of setting in order this Universe was being undertaken, fire and…” quote by Plato](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2ce/plato-103_absence_wherefore-also-these-kinds-elements-occu_2651162.jpg)
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