A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful. — Plato Copy Share Image
“Plato is widely believed to have been a student of Socrates and to have been deeply influenced by his teacher's unjust death.… — Plato Copy Share Image
Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist,… — Plato Copy Share Image
He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink. — Plato Copy Share Image
“And I think that you must have observed again and again what a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped… — Plato Copy Share Image
What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in… — Plato Copy Share Image
. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that… — Plato Copy Share Image
“You know, Phaedrus, writing shares a strange feature with painting. The offsprings of painting stand there as if they are alive, but… — 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
