You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up… — 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
We must now examine whether just people also live better and are happier than unjust ones. I think it's clear already that… — 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
The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object… — Plato Copy Share Image
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in… — Plato Copy Share Image
The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad;… — Plato Copy Share Image
The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful. — Plato Copy Share Image
I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogised, and to make this the… — 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
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most… — Plato Copy Share Image
You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt… — Plato Copy Share Image
Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling,… — Plato Copy Share Image
It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors. — Plato Copy Share Image
A person who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he or she ought only… — Plato Copy Share Image
You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the… — 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
