We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not… — Plato Copy Share Image
“But that we shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should… — Plato Copy Share Image
If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again. — Plato Copy Share Image
Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if… — Plato Copy Share Image
A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even… — Plato Copy Share Image
“…if a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a… — Plato Copy Share Image
If we are to keep our flock at the highest pitch of excellence, there should be as many unions of the best… — Plato Copy Share Image
If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge… — Plato Copy Share Image
... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of… — Plato Copy Share Image
And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not? — Plato Copy Share Image
If in a discussion of many matters ... we are not able to give perfectly exact and self-consistent accounts, do not be… — Plato Copy Share Image
No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse,… — Plato Copy Share Image
I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes… — Plato Copy Share Image
In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles?… — Plato Copy Share Image
And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not… — Plato Copy Share Image
If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule… — Plato Copy Share Image
For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to… — Plato Copy Share Image
If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake. — Plato Copy Share Image
We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in the idle fancy that we already… — Plato Copy Share Image
If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful. — Plato Copy Share Image
If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and… — 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
And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound… — Plato Copy Share Image
More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, 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
