Bears Quote by Plato

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

— Plato

You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.

— Plato

“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

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

— Plato

I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.

— Plato

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

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

— Plato

“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

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

“He was a wise man who invented God.”

— Plato

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

“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