Quotes by Plato There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. Plato plato wisdom love The first and the best victory is to conquer self. Plato plato acceptance work The measure of a man is what he does with power. Plato plato power leadership Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. Plato philosophical plato art In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one. Plato plato cities witty The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. Plato plato hero spring One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. Plato government plato war Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil. Plato plato wisdom education Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been. Plato natural-talent training plato Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality. Plato plato spring children Attention to health is life greatest hindrance. Plato philosophical plato life Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. Plato music plato soul Man is a being in search of meaning. Plato vision plato men We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue. Plato parenting plato children Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. Plato educational plato wisdom Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs. Plutarch plato gold rivers Love is a serious mental disease. Plato romance plato love A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers. Plato business plato wisdom Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. Plato democracies-have political plato Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Plato philosophical ignorance plato «89101112131415161718»
