Category Quotations

Plato says: “Harmony and grace depend on simplicity… the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character.”

Plato says: “Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.”

Plato says: “For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be…

Plato says: “For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.”

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 acting “rightly”.”

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.”