Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality. — Plato Copy Share Image
“...when equality is given to unequal things, the resultant will be unequal...” — Plato Copy Share Image
“They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)” — Plato Copy Share Image
The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself. — Plato Copy Share Image
“the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a… — Plato Copy Share Image
Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy. — Plato Copy Share Image
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it. — Plato Copy Share Image
“If you want to understand language, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time on the buses with people.” — Plato Copy Share Image
“He could not harm me, for I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse” — Plato Copy Share Image
I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to… — Plato Copy Share Image
The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the… — Plato Copy Share Image
“To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not; for it is to think one knows… — Plato Copy Share Image
The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of… — Plato Copy Share Image
Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as… — Plato Copy Share Image
These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing… — 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… — Plato Copy Share Image
Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for… — Plato Copy Share Image
The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening 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
A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something. — Plato Copy Share Image
There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them. — Plato Copy Share Image
The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man. — Plato Copy Share Image
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul. — Plato Copy Share Image
“He who refuses to rule is liable to be ruled by one who is worse than himself.” — Plato Copy Share Image
“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control… — Plato Copy Share Image
But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer… — Plato Copy Share Image
The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent. — Plato Copy Share Image
Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. — 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
