It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel,… — Plato Copy Share Image
When two friends are in the mood to chat, we have to go about it in a gentler and more dialectical way.… — Plato Copy Share Image
For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have… — Plato Copy Share Image
The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not. — Plato Copy Share Image
And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties… — 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
They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims… — Plato Copy Share Image
In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak. — Plato Copy Share Image
I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax... and that we remember… — Plato Copy Share Image
To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one… — Plato Copy Share Image
The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality. — Plato Copy Share Image
No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do… — Plato Copy Share Image
He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing 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
Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours… — Plato Copy Share Image
He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing. — Plato Copy Share Image
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
Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what… — 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
When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors… — Plato Copy Share Image
In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like… — Plato Copy Share Image
Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know… — Plato Copy Share Image
No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man. — Plato Copy Share Image
I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . .… — Plato Copy Share Image
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we… — Plato Copy Share Image
I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast… — 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
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
As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom… — 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
The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and… — 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
For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless… — 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
