“Men say that we ought not to enquire into the supreme God and the nature of the universe, nor busy ourselves in… — Plato Copy Share Image
Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp — Plato Copy Share Image
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid… — 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
In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but,… — 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
A man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible… — Plato Copy Share Image
“There's no chance of their having a conscious glimpse of the truth as long as they refuse to disturb the things they… — Plato Copy Share Image
Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most… — Plato Copy Share Image
“And if the truth of all things that are is always in our soul, then the soul must be immortal, so you… — Plato Copy Share Image
And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is?… — Plato Copy Share Image
Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation… — Plato Copy Share Image
My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth. — Plato Copy Share Image
Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content… — Plato Copy Share Image
Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world. — Plato Copy Share Image
A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever… — Plato Copy Share Image
Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to… — 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