“What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not beauty itself, and who… — Plato Copy Share Image
When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when… — Plato Copy Share Image
There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen. — Plato Copy Share Image
. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that… — Plato Copy Share Image
Maximize the power of the beliefs that strengthen you and neutralize those that weaken you. — Plato Copy Share Image
“He who approaches the temple of the Muses without inspiration, in the belief that craftsmanship alone suffices, will remain a bungler and… — Plato Copy Share Image
Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized… — Plato Copy Share Image
Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ...… — Plato Copy Share Image
Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old… — 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
