Quotes
Quotes - Plato
The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.
The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of discussion.
Let early education be a sort of amusement, you will then better be able to find out the natural bent of the child.
The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.
The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. -Plato.
We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell.
Of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.
He who is of a 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 burden.
Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.
Science is nothing but perception.
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.
