We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid… — Plato Copy Share Image
The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument… — Plato Copy Share Image
Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to… — 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
“There neither is nor ever will be a treatise of mine on the subject. For it does not admit of exposition like… — Plato Copy Share Image
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn. — Plato Copy Share Image
Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to… — Plato Copy Share Image
“... when someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but he'll take into consideration whether… — Plato Copy Share Image
O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall… — Plato Copy Share Image
In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for… — 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,...the… — 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
“They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)” — Plato Copy Share Image
For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other… — Plato Copy Share Image
Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth… — Plato Copy Share Image
And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean… — 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
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of… — Plato Copy Share Image
“If it is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, as it had no willing association with… — Plato Copy Share Image
Music is moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety… — Plato Copy Share Image
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life. — 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
