... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will… — Plato Copy Share Image
For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have… — Plato Copy Share Image
“It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a… — Plato Copy Share Image
Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as… — Plato Copy Share Image
Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire. — 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
For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a… — Plato Copy Share Image
There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them. — Plato Copy Share Image
He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he… — Plato Copy Share Image
The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for… — Plato Copy Share Image
I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them,… — Plato Copy Share Image
We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in the idle fancy that we already… — Plato Copy Share Image
Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement. — Plato Copy Share Image
What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to… — Plato Copy Share Image
To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or… — 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
The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of… — Plato Copy Share Image
And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he… — 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
