Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Topics: Plato Quotes

Love is a serious mental disease.

Love is a serious mental disease.

The good is the beautiful.

The good is the beautiful.

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...

Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our...

Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our...

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege...

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege...

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind,...

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind,...

Your silence gives consent.

Your silence gives consent.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with...

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with...

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

The graces once made up their mind - A shrine inviolate to find: And thus...

The graces once made up their mind - A shrine inviolate to find: And thus...

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is...

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is...

For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the...

For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the...

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.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and...

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and...

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people...

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people...

The wise are doubtful.

The wise are doubtful.

Listen with your ears, look with your eyes, but keep silent with your mouth.

Listen with your ears, look with your eyes, but keep silent with your mouth.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those...

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those...