The first and best victory is to conquer self.
PLATOBodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
More Plato Quotes
-
-
Love is a serious mental disease.
PLATO -
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
PLATO -
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
PLATO -
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
PLATO -
He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.
PLATO -
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
PLATO -
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
PLATO -
Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
PLATO -
Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
PLATO -
The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
PLATO -
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
PLATO -
At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
PLATO -
He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act.
PLATO -
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
PLATO -
Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
PLATO







