Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" There is no such thing as a lovers' oath. "
Plato
Thing
Oath
Lovers
Related Quotes:
" When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure. "
Plato
Said
May
Often
" To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less. "
Plato
Nature
Man
Human Nature
" Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another. "
Plato
Harm
Every
Good
" The beginning is the most important part of the work. "
Plato
Part
Work
Beginning
" To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent. "
Plato
Silence
Assume
Consent
" At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. "
Plato
Touch
Everyone
Love
" The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not. "
Plato
You
Highest
Injustice
" The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable. "
Plato
Service
Intolerable
Man
" The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. "
Plato
Conquer
Great
First
" To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed. "
Plato
Haste
Too Much
Suffer
" Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens. "
Plato
Life
Legal
Justice
" Wealth is well known to be a great comforter. "
Plato
Comforter
Well
Wealth
" Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery. "
Plato
Excess
Lies
Only
" All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue. "
Plato
Gold
Earth
Virtue
" They certainly give very strange names to diseases. "
Plato
Diseases
Give
Strange
" The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out. "
Plato
Love
Out
Need
" He who is not a good servant will not be a good master. "
Plato
Master
Good
He
" Philosophy begins in wonder. "
Plato
Philosophy
Wonder
Begins
" Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. "
Plato
World
Us
Soul
" Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. "
Plato
Which
Mind
Knowledge
" Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice. "
Plato
Which
Suffering
Injustice
" Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. "
Plato
Good People
Bad People
Good
" The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine. "
Plato
Divine
Endure
Vision
" I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. "
Plato
Work
Never
Doing
" Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance. "
Plato
Greatest
Life
Attention
" The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery. "
Plato
Important
Most
Training
" No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory. "
Plato
Man
Memory
Study
" I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. "
Plato
Known
Capable
Reasoning
" Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty. "
Plato
Honesty
Dishonesty
Most
" Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. "
Plato
Art
Men
Ruling