The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it… — Plato Copy Share Image
There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not… — Plato Copy Share Image
We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind; nor exercise the mind without the joint assistance of… — Plato Copy Share Image
I should not like to say ... that any kind of knowledge is not to be learned; for all knowledge appears to… — Plato Copy Share Image
The Graces sought some holy ground, Whose sight should ever please; And in their search the soul they found Of Aristophanes. — Plato Copy Share Image
“Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait,… — Plato Copy Share Image
If we are to keep our flock at the highest pitch of excellence, there should be as many unions of the best… — 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
SOCRATES: Perhaps we may be wrong; if so, you in your wisdom should convince us that we are mistaken in preferring justice… — Plato Copy Share Image
I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for… — Plato Copy Share Image
To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make… — 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
That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning… — 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
It would be better for me ... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should… — Plato Copy Share Image
Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens… — Plato Copy Share Image
The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be… — Plato Copy Share Image
The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind… — 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
