• Categories
Location |   Home >> Quotes SMS >> Author Wise Quotes >> Plato Quotes
  • Plato Quotes   942
  • Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love - all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Powerful Quotes , Philosophy Quotes
  • According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Two Quotes , Greek Quotes
  • You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action - that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Men Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Encouraging Quotes , Running Quotes
  • Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information - never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good - he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Plato Quotes , Real Quotes
  • . . . you did not seem to me over-fond of money. And this is the way in general with those who have not made it themselves, while those who have are twice as fond of it as anyone else. For just as poets are fond of their own poems, and fathers of their own children, so money-makers become devoted to money, not only because, like other people, they find it useful, but because it's their own creation.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Money Quotes , Children Quotes
  • Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Perfect Quotes , Justice Quotes