Plato
51 quotations
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
Man is a being in search of meaning.
Even the gods love jokes.
I have good hope that there is something after death.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
All learning has an emotional base.
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
Love is a serious mental disease.
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
The beginning is the most important part of the work.