I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive. Plato More Quotes by Plato More Quotes From Plato Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties. Plato causesignoranceroots The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live. Plato studymenlife One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on. Plato ambitioncharacterreality The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a Plato privilegeawakeningsoul A house that has a library in it has a soul. Plato thought-provokinghealinghouse A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things. Plato gratitudethankfulthank-you One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison. Plato slaveprisonpersons There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive. Plato hearingintegritymen Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure. Plato selfwisebeautiful He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act Plato wishcountrythinking A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books. Plato wealth-and-happinesswealth-of-knowledgebook For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes. Plato eyesoulevil If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others. Plato lanternshope-for-the-futureifs I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with Plato words-of-wisdommaychildren There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil. Plato povertycitizensevil The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics. Plato pureformmath Man is a being in search of meaning. Plato visionplatomen Nothing ever is, everything is becoming. Plato perspectivebecomingchange 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 parentingplatochildren More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else. Plato doeeasemen
