Plato
sitemanagerIgnorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
Plato
The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
Plato
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
Plato
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Plato
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Plato
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Plato
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Plato
The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.
Plato
There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.
Plato
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Plato
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Plato
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Plato
No human thing is of serious importance.
Plato
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Plato
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Plato
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
Plato
Friends have all things in common.
Plato
The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.
Plato
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
Plato
Death is not the worst than can happen to men.
Plato
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Plato
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a…
Plato
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Plato
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
Plato
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as…