Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.
Plato
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Plato
Epigrammatist
Philosopher
Poet
Ancient Athens
Platon
Aristocles
Well
Curse
Really
Blessing
Men
Greatest
Knew
Whether
Fear
Death
Wells
Eulogy
More quotes by Plato
He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act
Plato
Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.
Plato
Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.
Plato
No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.
Plato
Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.
Plato
In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.
Plato
The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.
Plato
[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it this leads to a lack of energy in the pursuit of it, and it is difficult. In the second place, students cannot learn it unless they have a teacher. But then a teacher can hardly be found.
Plato
A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
Plato
I have good hope that there is something after death.
Plato
Be kind. Every person you meet is fighting a difficult battle.
Plato
Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.
Plato
There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
Plato
Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.
Plato
The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.
Plato
.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.
Plato
Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it
Plato
The like is not the friend of the like in as far as he is like still the good may be the friend of the good in as far as he is good.
Plato
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
Plato
Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.
Plato
