Wise men speak because they have somethi... by Plato | We Heart Quotes

philosopher Men Philosophy Ancient Greece Athens

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

- Plato

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Love

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

- Plato

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

- Plato

I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.

- Plato

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

- Plato

Men Nothing

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

- Plato

Gods Man

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

- Plato

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