Time Quotes by Plato

“Time is the moving image of reality”

— Plato

Time is the moving imago of the unmoving eternity.

— Plato

“Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.”

— Plato

“Time is the moving image of eternity.”

— Plato

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

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When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister…

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Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

— Plato

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

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It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

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Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape,…

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He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity.

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Time carries off all things; wouldst thou exchange - Name, looks, nature, luck? Just give time full range

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Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in…

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All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation,…

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The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a…

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Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink…

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How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are…

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“For he, Adeimantus, whose mind is fixed upon true being, has surely no time to look down upon the affairs of earth,…

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Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our…

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Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours…

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That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a…

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We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past…

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When a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then…

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No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury…

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The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to…

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“And what about these, Socrates? Things that might seem absurd, like hair and mud and dirt, or anything else totally undignified and…

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Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

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“If you want to understand language, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time on the buses with people.”

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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even…

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If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.

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Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination…

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The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed.

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Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that…

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But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid…

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“Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school. And the person that dares…

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Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better…

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You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up…

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And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or…

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We must infer that all things are produced more plentifully and easily and of a better quality when one man does one…

— Plato