Category Plato

Plato says: “When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.”

Plato says: “When I began to talk with him, I could not help thinking that he was not really wise, although he was thought wise by many, and wiser still by himself; and I went and tried to explain to…

Plato says: “What a strange thing that which men call pleasure seems to be, and how astonishing the relation it has with what is thought to be its opposite, namely pain! A man cannot have both at the same time.…

Plato says: “Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.”

Plato says: “Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the…

Plato says: “To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; it is to think that one knows what one does not know. No one knows with regard to death…

Plato says: “This image of eternity is what we have come to call “time”, since along with the creation of the universe he devised and created days, nights, months, and years, which did not exist before the creation of the…

Plato says: “Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.”

Plato says: “There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.”

Plato says: “There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”