Plato
Plato
Platowas a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. He is widely considered the most pivotal figure in the development of philosophy, especially the Western tradition. Unlike nearly all of his philosophical contemporaries, Plato's entire œuvre is believed to have survived intact for over 2,400 years...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPhilosopher
children teaching exercise
There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play.
hands office democracy
A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.
health healing ignorant
The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.
plato amusement able
Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.
plato honesty dishonesty
Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
battle be-kind kind
Be kind, for everyone is having a hard battle.
ignorance roots evil
Ignorance: the root of all evil.
men tolerable
The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
evil rewards
There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.
character men evil
For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other men, on whose good or evil actions his own doings are compelled to hinge,--such a one, I say, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation; this is the man of manly character and of wisdom.
beautiful way faces
What a handsome face he had: but if he were naked you would forget he had a face, he is so beautiful in every way.
names challenges shapes
Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay
law innovation musical
Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them,
men giving honor
For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them