Plato
Plato
Platowas a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. He is widely considered the most pivotal figure in the development of philosophy, especially the Western tradition. Unlike nearly all of his philosophical contemporaries, Plato's entire œuvre is believed to have survived intact for over 2,400 years...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPhilosopher
errors soul body
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.
atheist errors soul
Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.
errors soul body
You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.
sweet errors virtue
Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink downward day after day, and make their whole life one continued series of errors.
feet errors shoes
Putting the shoe on the wrong foot.
leadership power seek worthy
Those who seek power are not worthy of that power.
carries exchange full luck range thou time
Time carries off all things; wouldst thou exchange - Name, looks, nature, luck? Just give time full range
adopted best character depends happiness leads living man manly plan wisdom
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
clear compels draws
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
conquer conquered great shameful
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
came inventions nor work
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
best defeats gains greek-philosopher lowest man sustains worst
There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
becoming great intend love neither nor themselves whether
Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.