No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated. — Plato Copy Share Image
Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a… — 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
Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city. — Plato Copy Share Image
If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful. — 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
He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable… — Plato Copy Share Image
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse… — 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
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
...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it… — Plato Copy Share Image
For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from… — Plato Copy Share Image
A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider… — Plato Copy Share Image
Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or… — 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
Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist,… — Plato Copy Share Image
We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past… — Plato Copy Share Image
For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to… — Plato Copy Share Image
When a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then… — Plato Copy Share Image
Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings... the men of… — Plato Copy Share Image
The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among… — Plato Copy Share Image
We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of… — Plato Copy Share Image
For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out… — 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
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
