Business Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“See how Plato is moved and tossed about. Every man, glorying in applying him to himself, sets him on the side he wants. They…

— Sarah Bakewell

“I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.”

— Cicero

But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.

— Pliny the Elder

“It was fundamental to Plato, and to the mainstream of classical Greek philosophy after him, that men are created unequal; not merely in the…

— M.I. Finley

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You know how much I used to like Plato. Today I realize he lied. For the things of this world are not a reflection…

— Tadeusz Borowski

By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running…

— Jeremy Collier

Plato was right, but not quite right.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Plato's world of ideas is beautiful.

— Carl Jung

“Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.”

— Robin Waterfield

“If you will bear in mind that Socrates, the best of the pagans, knew of no higher criterion for men, of no better guide…

— Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

“Plato is proved to be more religious than these men, for he allowed that the same God was both just and good,”

— The Church Fathers