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Plato Quotes - Page 7

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Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

Success, Failure, Men

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Plato, Perfection, Excellence

Plato, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Plato Collection [47 Books]”, p.2224, Catholic Way Publishing

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

Atheist, Errors, Understanding

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

I prefer nothing, unless it is true.

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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

Communication, Philosophical, Thinking

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Witty, Plato, Cities

Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.

Men, Talking, Years

There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

Knowledge, Words Of Wisdom, Meat

Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.38, Penguin

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

Plato, Philosophical, Inspiration

Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.126, Cosimo, Inc.

All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.

Inspirational, Recognition

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Education, Children, Men

The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

Education, Giving, Perfection

Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

Life, Plato, Philosophical

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Community, Principles, Riches

Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.200

Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger.

Justice, Stronger, Advantage

I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

Ambition, Son, Men

Necessity is literally the mother of invention.

Mother, Invention

To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories.

Responsibility, Winning, Self

The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.

Errors, Soul, Physicians

At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.

Cute, Poet, Love Everyone

The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Plato, Spring, Hero

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

In an honest man there is always something of a child.

Children, Men, Honest

All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance

Ignorance, My Own, Knows

It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.

Wise, Integrity, Men

The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals

Law, Democracy, Letters

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