The people have always 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 More Quotes by Plato More Quotes From Plato You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body. Plato errorsbodysoul What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual, and that when the naturally better element controls the worse then the man is said to be "master of himself", as a term of praise. But when - as a result of bad upbringing or bad company one s better element is overpowered by the numerical superiority of one s worse impulses, then one is criticized for not being master of oneself and for lack of self control. Plato charactermenmean The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.' Plato envyangerpain In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is not full authority for laws but rather full authority for a man who understands the art of kingship and has kingly ability. Plato lawmenart These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not. Plato equaldemocracyplato 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 doelovemen What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play. Plato live-lifecareersplay Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree. Plato degreesdoeheart Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not. Plato geometrydifficultprove And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul. Plato philosophicalplatofood At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters. Plato discoveryscienceart All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will. Plato dishonorableevil The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed. Plato happy-new-yearnew-yearcharacter The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting. Plato flutesinstrumentsmoral Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea. Plato wishseamay There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen. Plato applausemultitudesbelief Time is the moving imago of the unmoving eternity. Plato time-managementmanagementmoving Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world Plato differentmothergiving Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil. Plato spiritualevilmen From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the world order. Plato viewsordermoving
