Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Topics: Plato Quotes

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Even the gods love jokes

Even the gods love jokes

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon...

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon...

Philosophy begins in wonder.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

Pleasure is the bait of sin

Pleasure is the bait of sin

The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics

The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy...

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy...

And now I depart hence condemned by you to suffer the penalty of death, and...

And now I depart hence condemned by you to suffer the penalty of death, and...

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the...

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the...

Philosophy is the highest music.

Philosophy is the highest music.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Necessity... the mother of invention.

Necessity... the mother of invention.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it...

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it...

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are...

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are...

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not...

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not...

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.