A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods. — Plato Copy Share Image
“Do you desire to be wholly one; always day and night in one another's company? For if this is what you desire,… — Plato Copy Share Image
The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that… — Plato Copy Share Image
The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live. — Plato Copy Share Image
“...each living creature is said to be alive and to be the same individual-- as for example someone is said to be… — Plato Copy Share Image
Take a look around, then, and see that none of the uninitiated are listening. Now by the uninitiated I mean the people… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Rather I think that a man who ... is willing ... to value learning as long as he lives, not supposing that… — Plato Copy Share Image
“The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at… — Plato Copy Share Image
Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this [live a life of happiness and harmony… — Plato Copy Share Image
Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life. — Plato Copy Share Image
He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change… — Plato Copy Share Image
“The State is like a great and noble steed who is tardy in his motions owing to his very size, and requires… — Plato Copy Share Image
And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Tell us what complaint you have to make against us which justifies you in attempting to destroy us and the State? In… — Plato Copy Share Image
Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink… — Plato Copy Share Image
Each living creature is said to be alive and to be the same individual - as for example someone is said to… — Plato Copy Share Image
“The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams.” — Plato Copy Share Image
“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
In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life. — Plato Copy Share Image
A man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible… — Plato Copy Share Image
“We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of… — 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
