Top 10 Quotes by Plato

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To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.

The beginning is the most important part of the work. Pl

If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.

[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.

And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives as not to abuse or waste the reputation of your ancestors, knowing that to a man who has any self-respect, nothing is more dishonourable than to be honoured, not for his own sake, but on account of the reputation of his ancestors.