plato Quotes About men Page 5

“For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.”

Men Firsts Success Victory All Things Conquer Shameful Greatest Victory

Author:Plato

“It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.”

Men Kind Kindness Sick Medicine Punishment Wicked Physicians Chastisement Wicked Man Sick Man

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.”

Men Action Too Much Citizens Ideals Athlete Scholar Savages Vulgar Crude

Author:Plato

“No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.”

Ifs Knows Men Wells Death Blessing Curse Eulogy Greatest Blessings

Book:Great dialogues of Plato

Source: Great dialogues of Plato

“It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.”

Men Poetry Doors Vain Sober

Author:Plato

“To a good man nothing that happens is evil.”

Men Happens Evil Good Man

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“It is right to give every man his due.”

Men Giving Dues Every Man

Author:Plato

“The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.”

Men Tolerable

Author:Plato

“No man should be angry with what is true.”

Men Should Angry Who You Are Knowing Who You Are

Author:Plato