Quote

Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

Plato

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Plato
Epigrammatist
Philosopher
Poet
Ancient Athens
Platon
Aristocles
Desires
Subduing
Wisdom
Meetings
Aright
Justice
Principle
Moderately
Four
Parts
Fleeing
Understanding
Private
Temperance
Perfect
Danger
Fortitude
Desire
Principles
Meeting
Living
Equally
Things
Public

More quotes by Plato

Image
A wise man speaks because he has something to say a fool because he has to say something.
Plato
Image
The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.
Plato
Image
Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.
Plato
Image
Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.
Plato
Image
No man should be angry with what is true.
Plato
Image
Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.
Plato
Image
All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.
Plato
Image
Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.
Plato
Image
For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.
Plato
Image
There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.
Plato
Image
For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.
Plato
Image
Wealth and poverty one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
Plato
Image
In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.
Plato
Image
Philosophy is the highest music.
Plato
Image
Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.
Plato
Image
Truth is its own reward.
Plato
Image
Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.
Plato
Image
We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men with the best of our women as often as possible, and the inferior men with the inferior women as seldom as possible, and keep only the offspring of the best.
Plato
Image
Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
Plato
Image
Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.
Plato