For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from… — Plato Copy Share Image
To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make… — Plato Copy Share Image
... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor. — Plato Copy Share Image
The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object… — Plato Copy Share Image
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. — Plato Copy Share Image
Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I… — Plato Copy Share Image
Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself,… — 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
Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself… — 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