Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy. — Plato Copy Share Image
But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than… — Plato Copy Share Image
They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims… — Plato Copy Share Image
[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this… — Plato Copy Share Image
If in a discussion of many matters ... we are not able to give perfectly exact and self-consistent accounts, do not be… — Plato Copy Share Image
If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and… — Plato Copy Share Image
At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the… — Plato Copy Share Image
“he who would proceed in due course should love first one fair form, and then many, and learn the connexion of them;… — Plato Copy Share Image
If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of… — 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
Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to… — 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
The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a… — 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
![“[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this leads to a lack of energy in the pursuit of it, and it is difficult. In the second place, students cannot learn it unless they have a teacher. But then a teacher can hardly be…” quote by Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ba0/plato-103_difficult_not-enough-is-known-about-solid-geometry_597380.jpg)
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