Quotes about plato
plato all-things
God is not the author of all things, but of good only. Plato
plato parent use
The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.
plato boys men
And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are unpoetical, or unattractive to the popular ear, but because the greater the poetical charm in them, the less are they meet for the ears of boys and men who are meant to be free, and who should fear slavery more than death.
plato men courageous
Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?
plato honor noble
Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
plato penalties inferiors
The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
plato sick physicians
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?
plato believe law
Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.
plato character mean
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.
plato men tools
The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.
plato body physicians
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, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?
plato natural-talent training
Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been.
plato children spring
Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.
plato enemy use
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, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.
plato
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
plato government opposites
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
plato serious importance
No human thing is of serious importance.
plato opposites causes
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
plato perception
Science is nothing but perception.
plato pleasure-love evil
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
plato math divides
He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.
plato names giving
They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
plato men deception
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
plato virtuous seeking
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
plato political style
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
plato authority wisest
The wisest have the most authority.
plato math amusing
Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.
plato math science
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
plato training important
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
plato democracy despotism
Democracy passes into despotism.
plato philosophy highest
Philosophy is the highest music.
plato men discipline
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
plato masters servant
He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.