• Categories
Location |   Home >> Quotes SMS >> Author Wise Quotes >> Plato Quotes
  • Plato Quotes   942
  • Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other? If you weigh pleasures against pleasures, you of course take the more and greater; or if you weigh pains against pains, then you choose that course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by the near or the near by the distant; and you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Pain Quotes , Balance Quotes
  • The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of words and deeds arranged in the Dorian mode. Such a one makes me joyous with the sound of his voice, so eager am I in drinking in his words.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Art Quotes , Drinking Quotes
  • ... our purpose in founding our state was not to promote the happiness of a single class, but, so far as possible, of the whole community. Our idea was that we were most likely to justice in such a community, and so be able to decide the question we are trying to answer. We are therefore at the moment trying to construct what we think is a happy community by securing the happiness not of a select minority, but of a whole.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Class Quotes
  • The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Men Quotes , Perfect Quotes