Quote of Plato - Then donʼt conclude that what is...

Biography - Plato:

Greek philosopher (Approximate years of birth and death).
Born: -428 - Died: -348
Period:
4th century BC
5th century BC
Place of birth: Greece
Greece

Then donʼt conclude that what is not beautiful is ugly or what is not good is bad.

Plato - Symposium

Note

Diotima to Socrates

Quote source: Symposium

Translation

(French, German)

Ne force donc ni ce qui n’est pas beau à être laid, ni non plus ce qui n’est pas bon à être mauvais.

Platon - Le Banquet

Halte es also nicht für notwendig, dass das Nichtschöne hässlich und das Nichtgute schlecht und böse sein müsse.

Platon - Symposion

Quotes about beauty:

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Confucius /

beauty

All the diversity, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

Leo Tolstoy /

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

Baruch Spinoza - Ethics /

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine of Hippo /

What beauty is, I know not.

Albrecht Dürer /

beauty

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.

Albrecht Dürer - Four Books of Human Proportion /

All about beauty...

Quotes for: good

The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims /

Do not wait to be perfect to start something good.

Abbé Pierre /

Where all is well, there is no such thing as injustice. Justice and goodness are inseparable.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education /

To do good needs no consideration.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Iphigenia in Tauris /

good

The best is the enemy of good.

Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary /

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice /

All good quotes...

Plato also said...

Time is the moving image of eternity.

Plato - Timaeus /

The chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse if a man will not himself hold office and rule.

Plato - Republic /

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato /

We must observe that in each one of us there are two ruling and leading principles, which we follow whithersoever they lead; one is the innate desire for pleasures, the other an acquired opinion which strives for the best. These two sometimes agree within us and are sometimes in strife; and sometimes one, and sometimes the other has the greater power.

Plato - Phaedrus /

I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed ... from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty.

Plato - Symposium /

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Plato - Phaedo

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