Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

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• Plato:

  Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

• Plato:

  It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it

• Plato:

  To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and w

• Plato:

  All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

• Plato:

  Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all

• Plato:

  Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only wh

• Plato:

  To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

• Plato:

  There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats whi

• Plato:

  The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

• Plato:

  We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should