“My meaning is, that any state of action or passion implies previous action or passion. It does not become because it is… — Plato Copy Share Image
“And yet even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en… — Plato Copy Share Image
“If it were necessary either to do wrong or to suffer it, I should choose to suffer rather than do it.” — Plato Copy Share Image
O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall… — Plato Copy Share Image
Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route. — Plato Copy Share Image
... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of… — Plato Copy Share Image
And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean… — Plato Copy Share Image
Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it. — Plato Copy Share Image
The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice. — Plato Copy Share Image
Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice. — Plato Copy Share Image
And now I depart hence condemned by you to suffer the penalty of death, and they, too, go their ways condemned by… — 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