• Categories
  • Plato Quotes   154
  • Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Plato Quotes , Natural Talent Quotes
  • Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Plato Quotes , Believe Quotes
  • Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Plato Quotes , Character Quotes
  • The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Plato Quotes , Parent Quotes