The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of… — 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
Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic… — 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
I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we… — Plato Copy Share Image
Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and… — 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
Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . .… — Plato Copy Share Image
What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party. — Plato Copy Share Image
What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character… — 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
By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of… — Plato Copy Share Image
“... there is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only… — 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
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
The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires… — Plato Copy Share Image
The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that… — Plato Copy Share Image
The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful. — 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
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly… — Plato Copy Share Image
And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is?… — 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
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