You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up… — Plato Copy Share Image
A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider… — Plato Copy Share Image
He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved… — 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
“the only thing he ought to consider, if he does anything, is whether he does right or wrong, whether it is what… — Plato Copy Share Image
The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves. — Plato Copy Share Image
If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly. — Plato Copy Share Image
The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Nor when love is of this disinterested sort is there any disgrace in being deceived, but in every other case there is… — Plato Copy Share Image
Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms… — 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