Quote

Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?

Plato

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Plato
Epigrammatist
Philosopher
Poet
Ancient Athens
Platon
Aristocles
Money
Appears
Power
Issue
Great
Influence
Good
Issues
Men
Virtue
Profited
Justice
Stake
Greater
Stakes
Whether
Neglect

More quotes by Plato

Image
Thinking is the soul talking to itself.
Plato
Image
If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one.
Plato
Image
Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness.
Plato
Image
Where love reigns, there's no need for laws.
Plato
Image
Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.
Plato
Image
A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.
Plato
Image
Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful.
Plato
Image
[The Cretans have] more wit than words.
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
To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.
Plato
Image
We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?
Plato
Image
Truth is its own reward.
Plato
Image
The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.
Plato
Image
Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.
Plato
Image
Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.
Plato
Image
Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
Plato
Image
No human thing is of serious importance.
Plato
Image
It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.
Plato
Image
It would be better for me ... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.
Plato
Image
Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.
Plato