Quotes from Plato

Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.

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

Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.

An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.

Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied.

When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'

As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.

... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.

Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.

As the government is, such will be the man.

Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.

I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.

If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.

Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons hiom.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.

[M]ore than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way into the secret places of the soul.