Plato

Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain.

Plato

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

Plato

But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea.

Plato

But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.

Plato

But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than any other part of him, must have thoughts immortal and divine. If he attain truth, and in so far as human nature is capable of sharing in immortality, he must altogether be immortal.

Plato

But I am too stupid to be convinced by him.

Plato

But I don’t think we shall quarrel about a word – the subject of our inquiry is too important for that.

Plato

But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?

Plato

But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees or a healer of the sick?

Plato

But whether the just have a better and happier life than the unjust is a further question which we also proposed to consider.

Plato