An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation. Plato More Quotes by Plato More Quotes From Plato The worst of all deceptions is self-deception. Plato deceptionselffear The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants. Plato plantpractice Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge. Plato lightfirechildren I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men. Plato ambitionmenson It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary. Plato wiseintegritymen Better a good enemy than a bad friend. Plato good-enemybad-friendenemy Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences. Plato herbswisehoney No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. Plato educationmenchildren True friendship can exist only between equals. Plato true-friendshiptrue-friend Happiness springs from doing good and helping others. Plato helping-othersspringhelping Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. Plato failuresuccessmen When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself. Plato philosophicalcommunicationthinking When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe. Plato savagesanimalmen 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 platocitieswitty Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value. Plato standardscashmakers A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. Plato tyrantswarorder To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible. Plato wealthyimpossible Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself! Plato progressmatteradvice How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? Plato philosophicaldreaminspirational Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right. Plato quarrelsparentingparent
