Category Quotations

Plato says: “Excellence” is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act “rightly” because we are “excellent”, in fact we achieve “excellence” by

Plato says: “Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.”

Plato says: “Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity”

Plato says: “Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.”

Plato says: “And I understood then that I was a fool when I told you I would take my turn in singing the honours of Love, and admitted I was terribly clever in love affairs, whereas it seems I really…

Plato says: “An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”

Plato says: “All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.”

Plato says: “According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of…

Plato says: “A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways – by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognise that the same thing happens to the…

Plato says: “A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.”