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
We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of… — Plato Copy Share Image
And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to… — Plato Copy Share Image
Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not… — Plato Copy Share Image
If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that… — Plato Copy Share Image
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
If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too… — Plato Copy Share Image
If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility. — Plato Copy Share Image
If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others. — Plato Copy Share Image
Observe that open loves are held to be more honourable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest,… — 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
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
But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than… — Plato Copy Share Image
“If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now… — Plato Copy Share Image
What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,...… — Plato Copy Share Image
If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their… — Plato Copy Share Image
If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection — Plato Copy Share Image
And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first… — Plato Copy Share Image
Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as… — Plato Copy Share Image
What a handsome face he had: but if he were naked you would forget he had a face, he is so beautiful… — 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
Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning… — 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
