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Wealth... And poverty: The one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent (Plato Quotes)
Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom; when the passions relax their hold, then... We are freed from the grasp not of one mad master only, but of many (Plato Quotes)
Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many (Plato Quotes)
The God, o men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect (Plato Quotes)
As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers (Plato Quotes)
If a man be endued with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility (Plato Quotes)
Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own (Plato Quotes)
Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell (Plato Quotes)
Do not then train boys to learning by force and harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds (Plato Quotes)
When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness (Plato Quotes)
Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city (Plato Quotes)
The most virtuous of all men is he that contents himself with being virtuous without seeking to appear so (Plato Quotes)
May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ (Plato Quotes)
Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right (Plato Quotes)
Truth is the source of every good to gods and men. He who expects to be blessed and fortunate in this world should be a partaker of it from the earliest moment of his life (Plato Quotes)
Plato was a bore (Plato Quotes)
If Plato is a fine red wine, then Aristotle is a dry martini (Plato Quotes)
The stolen and perverted writings of Homer and Ovid, of Plato and Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the sublime of the bible (Plato Quotes)
Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx (Plato Quotes)
Amicus Plato - amicus Aristoteles - magis amica veritas. Plato is my friend - Aristotle is my friend - but my greatest friend is truth (Plato Quotes)
Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order (Plato Quotes)
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato (Plato Quotes)
If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato, and more time in the buses with people (Plato Quotes)
Plato says that as one learns to love, the image of any specific beloved can be left behind for knowledge of the Good (Plato Quotes)
I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that young people who want to understand the world can profit from the works of Plato and Socrates, the behaviour of the three Thomases, Aquinas, more and Jefferson - the austere analyses of Immanuel Kant and the political leadership of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt (Plato Quotes)
Plato is correct about democracy. It is essentially mob rule. and once the mob gets an idea into it's collective head, it's almost impossible to get it out, or modify it in any way. In an era of mass communication and irresponsible media, it can be a deadly characteristic (Plato Quotes)
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought (Plato Quotes)
Plato said that of all things in the world we should beware of that folly by which most men please themselves and despise a better judgment (Plato Quotes)
The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through reminiscence, that is by remembering, by intuitively searching into our own experience (Plato Quotes)
When it is known that Plato put his own words in Socrates’ mouth (Aristotle says this) there should be no reason to doubt that he could have put his own words into other mouths too (Plato Quotes)