If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility. — Plato Copy Share Image
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. — Plato Copy Share Image
Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always… — Plato Copy Share Image
The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs… — 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
“There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and… — Plato Copy Share Image
I should not like to say ... that any kind of knowledge is not to be learned; for all knowledge appears to… — Plato Copy Share Image
The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds. — Plato Copy Share Image
The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets. — Plato Copy Share Image
Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. — Plato Copy Share Image
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are… — Plato Copy Share Image
Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they… — Plato Copy Share Image
It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all… — Plato Copy Share Image
Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up. — Plato Copy Share Image
Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two… — Plato Copy Share Image
Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time,… — Plato Copy Share Image
It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty,… — Plato Copy Share Image
A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike! — 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