Category Plato

Plato says: “No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.”

Plato says: “Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius…

Plato says: “Still I have a favor to ask of them. When my sons are grown up, I would ask you, O my friends, to punish them; and I would have you trouble them, as I have troubled you, if…

Plato says: “He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act”

Plato says: “The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding:…

Plato says: “…if a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.”

Plato says: “Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.”

Plato says: “Justice is useful when money is useless.”

Plato says: “The man who has no self-respect, on the contrary, will imitate anybody and anything; sounds of nature and cries of animals alike; his whole performance will be imitation of gesture and voice.”

Plato says: “Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace…