The beginning is the most important part of the work.
PLATOPoets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
More Plato Quotes
-
-
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
PLATO -
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
PLATO -
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
PLATO -
The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
PLATO -
There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
PLATO -
Necessity is the mother of invention.
PLATO -
An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
PLATO -
Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
PLATO -
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
PLATO -
One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
PLATO -
No human thing is of serious importance.
PLATO -
Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
PLATO -
At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
PLATO -
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
PLATO -
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
PLATO