If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection — 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 you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful. — 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
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
And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not? — Plato Copy Share Image
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself! — Plato Copy Share Image
If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange. — 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 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
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
Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the… — Plato Copy Share Image
For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of… — 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
“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
If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of… — 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
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
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 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
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
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
Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and… — 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
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
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
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
Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp — 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
Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function… — 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
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
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
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
If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again. — 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“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
We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men… — Plato Copy Share
