When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one. — Plato Copy Share Image
There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power. — Plato Copy Share Image
Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction 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
And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first… — Plato Copy Share Image
“For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that… — Plato Copy Share Image
Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better… — Plato Copy Share Image
To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or… — Plato Copy Share Image
And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the… — Plato Copy Share Image
It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of… — Plato Copy Share Image
For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a… — Plato Copy Share Image
Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if… — Plato Copy Share Image
And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not… — Plato Copy Share Image
And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Plato is widely believed to have been a student of Socrates and to have been deeply influenced by his teacher's unjust death.… — Plato Copy Share Image
“There is nothing which for my part I like better, Cephalus, than conversing with aged men; for I regard them as travellers… — Plato Copy Share Image
[Aristotle] was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato… He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that… — Plato Copy Share Image
Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always… — Plato Copy Share Image
“I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he… — 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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