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 Image
Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we… — Plato Copy Share Image
Interference by the three classes with each other s jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to… — Plato Copy Share Image
Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil… — Plato Copy Share Image
When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of… — 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
The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some… — Plato Copy Share Image
The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of bad men, and, growing like them, to fly from the… — Plato Copy Share Image
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much… — Plato Copy Share Image
There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil. — Plato Copy Share Image
The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man. — Plato Copy Share Image
For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence,… — 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
Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know… — Plato Copy Share Image
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness… — Plato Copy Share Image
For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other… — 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
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
“["F]or it's not possible," [Socrates] said, "for anybody to experience a greater evil than hating arguments. Hatred of arguments and hatred of… — Plato Copy Share Image
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all. — Plato Copy Share Image
To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
