Man is a wingless animal with two feet a... by Plato | We Heart Quotes

Man philosopher Philosophy Feet Ancient Greece

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

- Plato

Other quotes by Plato

Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act rightly because we are excellent, in fact we achieve excellence by acting rightly.

- Plato

Worth Work

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

- Plato

Mother

Necessity... the mother of invention.

- Plato

Virtue

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

- Plato

Gods Man

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

- Plato

Discipline Freedom Man First

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

- Plato

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