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

Topics: Plato Quotes

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 prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is...

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is...

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be...

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be...

Science is nothing but perception.

Science is nothing but perception.

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.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

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

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

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that...

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that...

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is...

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is...

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires

Vereker's secret, my dear man - the general intention of his books: the string the...

Vereker's secret, my dear man - the general intention of his books: the string the...

The world's a book, writ by the eternal art - Of the great author printed...

The world's a book, writ by the eternal art - Of the great author printed...

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because...

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because...