All Plato Quotes
- Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings… Always Feeling
- Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. Aim
- If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the… All
- In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still… Age
- These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike… Agreeable
- Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? All
- To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens,… Any
- That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in… Appear
- Science is nothing but perception. Inspirational
- Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all… Act
- Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest,… Agreed
- The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction. Anything Causes
- The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself. Deciding
- Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants. Descendants
- No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth. Hated
- No human thing is of serious importance. Human
- Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him? Any
- Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil. Every Evil
- But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick? Earner
- And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves, then… Able