Browsing Quotes By Plato
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“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet”
Speaker: PlatoSource: BrainyquotePosted: 02 May 2009 at 7:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 9:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 9:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 9:06 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle.
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 9:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation,
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 9:04 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 9:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Let early education be a sort of amusement, you will then better be able to find out the natural bent of the child.
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:53 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and vile. One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclination to do is worth all of the good thoughts, warm feelings, and passionate prayers in which idle men indulge themselves.
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:29 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind; yet the mind and body are one and should not be treated separately.
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:00 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Through the agency of these the god draws the souls of men wherever he wishes, by hitching one man to the power of another.
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:59 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What we need is that the only men to get power should be men who do not love it, otherwise we shall have rivals’ quarrels.
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:56 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The truth is that if you want a well-governed state to be possible, you must find for your future rulers some way of life they like better than government.
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
And so our state and yours will really be awake, and not merely dreaming like most societies today, with their shadow battles and their struggles for political power, which they treat as some great prize.
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Wrong-doing is the worst harm that can befall a wrong-doer (though not to be punished for wrong-doing is even worse, if any thing can be worse than the worst)…
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!