Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

Topics: Plato Quotes

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...

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

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

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom.

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom.

Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every...

Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every...

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...

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of the understanding

Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of the understanding

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a...

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a...

For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the...

For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the...

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

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

Love is a serious mental disease.

Love is a serious mental disease.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat...

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat...

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust...

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust...

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest...

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest...

A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is...

A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is...

Ignorance is the mother of devotion

Ignorance is the mother of devotion

They have involved co-operation between the Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda operatives on training and combined...

They have involved co-operation between the Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda operatives on training and combined...

Fortune and misfortune are two buckets in the same well

Fortune and misfortune are two buckets in the same well