Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Topics: Plato Quotes

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to...

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to...

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than...

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than...

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

The good is the beautiful.

The good is the beautiful.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Pleasure is the bait of sin

Pleasure is the bait of sin

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom.

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom.

She that fails to command her thoughts will soon lose command of her actions

She that fails to command her thoughts will soon lose command of her actions

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear...

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear...

Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction,...

Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction,...

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of...

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of...

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being...

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being...

Science is nothing but perception.

Science is nothing but perception.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what...

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what...

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and...

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and...