Plato
In the Essays of Michel de Montaigne
There are 199 instances of Plato in 44 chapters.
Normalized frequency of Plato in the Essays
- Book 1 · Chapter 3 · ¶ 2.
Our Attachments Outlive Us This excellent piece of advice is usually attributed to Plato: “Do your own work and know thyself.” Each part broadly covers all …
- Book 1 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 1.
On Liars that it is to me (for, indeed, given how necessary it is, Plato is right to call it a great and powerful goddess). …
- Book 1 · Chapter 11 · ¶ 1.
On Prognostications and partly responsible for the layout of their internal organs according to Plato❦ — from the stamping of chickens and the flight of birds, Aues …
- Book 1 · Chapter 11 · ¶ 11.
On Prognostications fair, chance has always had some part to play in all republics. Plato lets it presides over many important aspects of the government he likes …
- Book 1 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 4.
On Constancy In Plato, Socrates mocks Laches who defined fortitude as facing and holding the line …
- Book 1 · Chapter 22 · ¶ 3.
On Custom and Not Easily Changing an Accepted Law most efficient master of all things.❦ Here, I trust the story of Plato’s cave (in his Republic)∗ and the doctors who so often abandon the …
- Book 1 · Chapter 22 · ¶ 6.
On Custom and Not Easily Changing an Accepted Law Plato once scolded a child playing jacks. The child answered: “You’re mad at …
- Book 1 · Chapter 22 · ¶ 29.
On Custom and Not Easily Changing an Accepted Law This is the method Plato proposes to follow to drive away the unnatural and perverted loves of …
- Book 1 · Chapter 24 · ¶ 16.
On Pedantry We can say, Cicero says thus; these were the manners of Plato; these are the very words of Aristotle: but what do we say …
- Book 1 · Chapter 24 · ¶ 24.
On Pedantry These pedants of ours, as Plato says of the Sophists, their cousin-germans, are, of all men, they who …
- Book 1 · Chapter 24 · ¶ 39.
On Pedantry not follow it, and sees knowledge, but makes no use of it. Plato’s principal institution in his Republic is to fit his citizens with employments …
- Book 1 · Chapter 24 · ¶ 42.
On Pedantry find that they taught their children virtue, as other nations do letters. Plato tells us that the eldest son in their royal succession was thus …
- Book 1 · Chapter 24 · ¶ 43.
On Pedantry should only instruct them in valor, prudence, and justice; an example that Plato has followed in his laws. The manner of their discipline was to …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 15.
On the Education of Children prognostics they give of themselves in their tender years, and to which Plato, in his Republic, gives, methinks, too much authority. …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 21.
On the Education of Children his own, taking instruction of his progress by the pedagogic institutions of Plato. ’Tis a sign of crudity and indigestion to disgorge what we eat …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 25.
On the Education of Children for, if he embrace the opinions of Xenophon and Plato, by his own reason, they will no more be theirs, but become …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 25.
On the Education of Children first, than his who speaks them after: ’tis no more according to Plato, than according to me, since both he and I equally see and …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 28.
On the Education of Children any superstructure to be built upon it, according to the opinion of Plato, who says, that constancy, faith, and sincerity, are the true philosophy, and …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 45.
On the Education of Children a study of inestimable fruit and value; and the only study, as Plato reports, that the Lacedæmonians reserved to themselves. What profit shall he not …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 66.
On the Education of Children minced pies, though he were the son of a duke; according to Plato’s precept, that children are to be placed out and disposed of, not …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 74.
On the Education of Children she is ever to be admitted in all sports and entertainments. And Plato, having invited her to his feast, we see after how gentle and …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 76.
On the Education of Children but a man, and we ought not to divide him. And, as Plato says, we are not to fashion one without the other, but make …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 78.
On the Education of Children ’Tis marvellous to see how solicitous Plato is in his Laws concerning the gaiety and diversion of the youth of …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 86.
On the Education of Children God forbid, says one in Plato, that to philosophize were only to read a great many books, and …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 115.
On the Education of Children The Athenians, says Plato, study fullness and elegance of speaking; the Lacedaemonians affect brevity, and those …
- Book 1 · Chapter 29 · ¶ 4.
On Moderation great light, and to look down into a dark abyss. Callicles in Plato says, that the extremity of philosophy is hurtful, and advises not to …
- Book 1 · Chapter 29 · ¶ 9.
On Moderation child, it be lawful to embrace our wives. ’Tis homicide, according to Plato. Certain nations (the Mohammedan, among others) abominate all conjunction with women with …
- Book 1 · Chapter 29 · ¶ 14.
On Moderation himself was in great distress for a little of this sport, that Plato borrowed this story; that Jupiter was one day so hot upon his …
- Book 1 · Chapter 30 · ¶ 2.
On Cannibals than capacity; for we grasp at all, but catch nothing but wind. Plato brings in Solon, telling a story that he had heard from the …
- Book 1 · Chapter 30 · ¶ 13.
On Cannibals so much as the web of a poor spider. All things, says Plato, are produced either by nature, by fortune, or by art; the greatest …
- Book 1 · Chapter 30 · ¶ 14.
On Cannibals judge of them than we are. I am sorry that Lycurgus and Plato had no knowledge of them; for to my apprehension, what we now …
- Book 1 · Chapter 30 · ¶ 14.
On Cannibals been maintained with so little artifice and human patchwork. I should tell Plato, that it is a nation wherein there is no manner of traffic, …
- Book 1 · Chapter 31 · ¶ 1.
Hazarding an Opinion on God’s Plans Demands Caution of the means to question and dispute them: For which reason, says Plato, it is much more easy to satisfy the hearers, when speaking of …
- Book 1 · Chapter 35 · ¶ 11.
On the Custom of Wearing Clothes And Plato very earnestly advises for the health of the whole body, to give …
- Book 1 · Chapter 40 · ¶ 35.
The Taste of Good and Bad Things Depends Mostly on the Opinion We Have of Them Plato worries about our bitter relationship with pain and pleasure because it gives …
- Book 1 · Chapter 40 · ¶ 63.
The Taste of Good and Bad Things Depends Mostly on the Opinion We Have of Them Plato lists physical and human qualities in this order: health, beauty, strength, wealth. …
- Book 1 · Chapter 42 · ¶ 32.
On the Inequality among Us of canary, or than a horse is sensible of his rich caparison. Plato is in the right when he tells us that health, beauty, vigor, …
- Book 1 · Chapter 42 · ¶ 46.
On the Inequality among Us pleasure to them, to insult over and to trample upon public observances. Plato, indeed, in his Goygias, defines a tyrant to be one who in …
- Book 1 · Chapter 43 · ¶ 5.
On Sumptuary Laws Plato in his Laws esteems nothing of more pestiferous consequence to his city …
- Book 1 · Chapter 46 · ¶ 3.
On Names which would seem far fetched were there not as crude derivations in Plato himself. …
- Book 1 · Chapter 46 · ¶ 19.
On Names History tells us of three of the name of Socrates, of five Platos, of eight Aristotles, of seven Xenophons, of twenty Demetrii, and of twenty …
- Book 1 · Chapter 47 · ¶ 18.
On the Uncertainty of Our Judgment “We argue rashly and adventurously,” says Timaeus in Plato, “by reason that, as well as ourselves, our discourses have great participation …
- Book 1 · Chapter 48 · ¶ 7.
On War Horses place where, whether well or sick, I find myself most at ease. Plato recommends it for health, as also Pliny says it is good for the …
- Book 1 · Chapter 51 · ¶ 2.
On the Vanity of Words defined rhetoric to be “a science to persuade the people;” Socrates and Plato “an art to flatter and deceive.” And those who deny it in the …
- Book 1 · Chapter 51 · ¶ 13.
On the Vanity of Words with which antiquity honored but one or two persons in several ages. Plato carried away the surname of Divine, by so universal a consent that …
- Book 1 · Chapter 52 · ¶ 3.
On the Parsimony of the Ancients in his train. ‘Tis said that Homer had never more than one, Plato three, and Zeno, founder of the sect of Stoics, none at all. …
- Book 1 · Chapter 56 · ¶ 5.
On Prayers Plato in his Laws, makes three sorts of belief injurious to the gods; …
- Book 1 · Chapter 56 · ¶ 16.
On Prayers profaned by the ignorant rabble; considering that the Gentiles expressly forbad Socrates, Plato, and the other sages to inquire into or so much as mention …
- Book 1 · Chapter 56 · ¶ 17.
On Prayers experienced men about the ecclesiastical laws; whereas the first of those of Plato forbids them to inquire so much as into the civil laws, which …
- Book 1 · Chapter 56 · ¶ 37.
On Prayers seduced us to offend her; neither the gods nor good men (says Plato) will accept the present of a wicked man. …
- Book 2 · Chapter 2 · ¶ 30.
On Drunkenness the Germans do the same, who then begin the battle of drink. Plato forbids children wine till eighteen years of age, and to get drunk …
- Book 2 · Chapter 2 · ¶ 43.
On Drunkenness career; which also is in them called fury and rapture. And as Plato says, ’tis to no purpose for a sober-minded man to knock at …
- Book 2 · Chapter 2 · ¶ 44.
On Drunkenness Plato argues thus, that the faculty of prophesying is so far above us, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 3 · ¶ 25.
A Custom of the Island of Cea Plato, in his Laws, assigns an ignominious sepulture to him who has deprived …
- Book 2 · Chapter 3 · ¶ 52.
A Custom of the Island of Cea “who shall rid me of these bands?” Cleombrotus of Ambracia, having read Plato’s Phaedo, entered into so great a desire of the life to come …
- Book 2 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 4.
On Conscience Hesiod corrects the saying of Plato, that punishment closely follows sin, it being, as he says, born at …
- Book 2 · Chapter 8 · ¶ 14.
On the Affection of Fathers for Their Children the opinion of thirty-five, which is said to be that of Aristotle. Plato will have nobody marry before thirty; but he has reason to laugh at …
- Book 2 · Chapter 8 · ¶ 43.
On the Affection of Fathers for Their Children The pleasant dialogue betwixt Plato’s legislator and his citizens will be an ornament to this place, “What,” …
- Book 2 · Chapter 8 · ¶ 48.
On the Affection of Fathers for Their Children Plato adds, that these are immortal children that immortalize and deify their fathers, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 10 · ¶ 13.
On Books I make so bold to criticize. When I find myself disgusted with Plato’s Axiochus, as with a work, with due respect to such an author …
- Book 2 · Chapter 10 · ¶ 24.
On Books the time excuse my sacrilegious boldness if I censure the dialogism of Plato himself as also dull and heavy, too much stifling the matter, and …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 27.
Apology for Raymond Sebond we should say, “and to be with Jesus Christ” The force of Plato’s arguments concerning the immortality of the soul set some of his disciples …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 30.
Apology for Raymond Sebond And what Plato says, “That there are few men so obstinate in their atheism whom …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 32.
Apology for Raymond Sebond Plato and these examples would conclude that we are brought to a belief …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 33.
Apology for Raymond Sebond and the ignorance of our sacred truth, let this great soul of Plato, but great only in human greatness, fall also into this other mistake, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 43.
Apology for Raymond Sebond but gives grace to the humble.❦ “Understanding is in the gods,” says Plato, “and not at all, or very little, in men.” …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 61.
Apology for Raymond Sebond fix habitations and human abodes, and plant colonies for our convenience, as Plato and Plutarch have done? And of our earth to make a luminous …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 63.
Apology for Raymond Sebond have my hour to begin or to refuse, she also has hers. Plato, in his picture of the golden age under Saturn, reckons, among the …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 183.
Apology for Raymond Sebond gentle, others haughty and majestic. Just as the preference in beauty that Plato attributes to the spherical figure the Epicureans gave rather to the pyramidal …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 188.
Apology for Raymond Sebond And what qualities of our bodily constitution, in Plato and Cicero, may not indifferently serve a thousand sorts of beasts? …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 226.
Apology for Raymond Sebond a free soul, and the effects of a supreme and extraordinary virtue? Plato says that melancholy persons are the most capable of discipline, and the …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 265.
Apology for Raymond Sebond And Plato thinks there is something of impiety in inquiring too curiously into God, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 276.
Apology for Raymond Sebond We know things in dreams, says Plato, and are ignorant of them in truth. …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 289.
Apology for Raymond Sebond zeal as your honor and life, and to give the lie to Plato thereupon, and shall they be interdicted to doubt him? If it be …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 296.
Apology for Raymond Sebond contempt of death; he has elsewhere translated from the very words of Plato: Si forte, de deorum natura ortuque mundi disserentes, minus id quod habemus …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 302.
Apology for Raymond Sebond Chrysippus said “That what Plato and Aristotle had writ, concerning logic, they had only done in sport, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 304.
Apology for Raymond Sebond As to the rest, some have looked upon Plato as a dogmatist, others as a doubter, others in some things the …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 305.
Apology for Raymond Sebond way we should choose. ’Tis said that ten several sects sprung from Plato; yet, in my opinion, never did any instruction halt and stumble, if …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 307.
Apology for Raymond Sebond Plato seems to have affected this method of philosophizing in dialogues; to the …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 316.
Apology for Raymond Sebond I cannot easily persuade myself that Epicurus, Plato, and Pythagoras, have given us their atom, idea and numbers, for current …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 317.
Apology for Raymond Sebond Plato treats of this mystery with a raillery manifest enough; for where he …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 330.
Apology for Raymond Sebond nature that darts out those images; and then, our science and intelligence. Plato divides his belief into several opinions; he says, in his Timaeus, that …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 330.
Apology for Raymond Sebond one God, and then that there are many. Speusippus, the nephew of Plato, makes God a certain power governing all things, and that he has …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 339.
Apology for Raymond Sebond offices, and power, I cannot believe they speak as they think. When Plato describes Pluto’s orchard to us, and the bodily conveniences or pains that …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 341.
Apology for Raymond Sebond with all sorts of worldly conveniences and pleasures. Can we believe that Plato, he who had such heavenly conceptions, and was so well acquainted with …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 341.
Apology for Raymond Sebond with the Divinity as thence to derive the name of the Divine Plato, ever thought that the poor creature, man, had any thing in him …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 342.
Apology for Raymond Sebond to render us capable, our being were reformed and changed (as thou, Plato, sayest, by thy purifications), it ought to be so extreme and total …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 346.
Apology for Raymond Sebond Caesar, they would be in the right who, controverting this opinion with Plato, reproach him that the son might be seen to ride his mother …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 348.
Apology for Raymond Sebond “And, Plato, when thou sayest in another place that it shall be the spiritual …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 354.
Apology for Raymond Sebond Might not Epicurus, with great color of human reason, object this to Plato, did he not often save himself with this sentence: “That it is …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 381.
Apology for Raymond Sebond it be a living creature, which its motions render so credible that Plato affirms it, and that many of our people do either confirm, or …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 386.
Apology for Raymond Sebond any use to him, nor motion from one place to another, as Plato proves: “That there is neither generation nor corruption in nature.” …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 394.
Apology for Raymond Sebond bears the name of a Christian shall ever do again)! and Thales, Plato, and Pythagoras have enslaved him to necessity. This arrogance of attempting to …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 412.
Apology for Raymond Sebond As if it had not been sufficient that Plato was originally descended from the gods by a double line, and that …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 412.
Apology for Raymond Sebond first be brought to bed. These were the father and mother of Plato. How many ridiculous stories are there of like cuckoldings, committed by the …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 434.
Apology for Raymond Sebond Plato having occasion, in his Timaeus, to speak of the daemons, “This undertaking,” …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 438.
Apology for Raymond Sebond heavenly bodies of differing colors about the axis of necessity, according to Plato: …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 441.
Apology for Raymond Sebond Have I not read in Plato this divine saying, that “nature is nothing but enigmatic poetry!” As if …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 443.
Apology for Raymond Sebond poets? and the first of them were poets themselves, and writ accordingly. Plato is but a poet unripped. Timon calls him, insultingly, “a monstrous forger …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 444.
Apology for Raymond Sebond the greatest and most plausible likelihood of truth, and the quaintest invention. Plato, upon the discourse of the state of human bodies and those of …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 448.
Apology for Raymond Sebond above the clouds, as that of the stars. As Socrates says, in Plato, “That whoever meddles with philosophy may be reproached as Thales was by …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 452.
Apology for Raymond Sebond know why I should not as willingly embrace either the ideas of Plato, or the atoms of Epicurus, or the plenum or vacuum of Leucippus …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 454.
Apology for Raymond Sebond sort of men, nor that are less philosophers, than the philodoxes of Plato; we must inquire whether fire be hot? whether snow be white? if …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 460.
Apology for Raymond Sebond at all, but that the body thus stirs by a natural motion; Plato, that it was a substance moving of itself; Thales, a nature without …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 473.
Apology for Raymond Sebond and end of knowledge are equally foolish; observe to what a pitch Plato flies in his poetic clouds; do but take notice there of the …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 473.
Apology for Raymond Sebond pulled a capon alive, they went about calling it the man of Plato.” …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 477.
Apology for Raymond Sebond of fancies and inventions, sometimes more sinewy, and sometimes weaker. This same Plato, who defines man as if he were a cock, says elsewhere, after …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 481.
Apology for Raymond Sebond But to return to the soul. Inasmuch as Plato has placed reason in the brain, anger in the heart, and concupiscence …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 495.
Apology for Raymond Sebond should follow that they should remember, being got in the body, as Plato said, “That what we learn is no other than a remembrance of …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 498.
Apology for Raymond Sebond Plato, to defend himself from this inconvenience, will have future payments limited to …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 520.
Apology for Raymond Sebond the world; the other, that it is a very profitable impression, as Plato says, that vices, when they escape the discovery and cognizance of human …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 530.
Apology for Raymond Sebond Plato, who professes to have embraced this belief from Pindar and the ancient …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 536.
Apology for Raymond Sebond that our seed is the foam or cream of our better blood; Plato, that it is the distillation of the marrow of the backbone; raising …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 546.
Apology for Raymond Sebond necessary for us that without them men would devour one another.” And Plato affirms, “That without laws we should live like beasts.” Our wit is …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 591.
Apology for Raymond Sebond Plato says that it changes countenance in all respects; that the heavens, the …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 591.
Apology for Raymond Sebond years, Aristotle, Pliny, and others, that Zoroaster flourished six thousand years before Plato’s time. Plato says that they of the city of Sais have records …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 591.
Apology for Raymond Sebond Pliny, and others, that Zoroaster flourished six thousand years before Plato’s time. Plato says that they of the city of Sais have records in writing …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 620.
Apology for Raymond Sebond lost their qualities, and remained empty names of indifferent things; Thrasymachus, in Plato, is of opinion that there is no other right but the convenience …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 627.
Apology for Raymond Sebond Dionysius, the tyrant, offered Plato a robe of the Persian fashion, long, damasked, and perfumed; Plato refused …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 627.
Apology for Raymond Sebond offered Plato a robe of the Persian fashion, long, damasked, and perfumed; Plato refused it, saying, “That being born a man, he would not willingly …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 634.
Apology for Raymond Sebond stoical quotations, and the reproach that Dicaearchus threw into the teeth of Plato himself, upon this account, show how much the soundest philosophy indulges licenses and …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 648.
Apology for Raymond Sebond Do but observe how Plato is tumbled and tossed about; every one ennobling his own opinions by …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 650.
Apology for Raymond Sebond in the senses, and in the knowledge of things, and in pleasure. Plato would have the judgment of truth, and truth itself, derived from opinions …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 715.
Apology for Raymond Sebond yet arrived at it, or begins to die before it is born. Plato said, that bodies had never any existence, but only birth; conceiving that …
- Book 2 · Chapter 16 · ¶ 63.
On Glory be as much as possible nursed up and cherished among us; and Plato, bending his whole endeavor to make his citizens virtuous, also advises them …
- Book 2 · Chapter 17 · ¶ 22.
On Presumption bark; but I likewise know that the greatest masters, and Xenophon and Plato are often seen to stoop to this low and popular manner of …
- Book 2 · Chapter 17 · ¶ 25.
On Presumption Plato says, that the long or the short are not properties, that either …
- Book 2 · Chapter 17 · ¶ 38.
On Presumption And Plato, together with temperance and fortitude, requires beauty in the conservators of his …
- Book 2 · Chapter 18 · ¶ 21.
On Calling Out Lies is the beginning of a great virtue, and the first article that Plato requires in the governor of his Republic. The truth of these days …
- Book 2 · Chapter 20 · ¶ 16.
We Taste Nothing Pure has in it some tincture of vice; and I am afraid that Plato, in his purest virtue (I, who am as sincere and loyal a …
- Book 2 · Chapter 20 · ¶ 17.
We Taste Nothing Pure laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice; insomuch that Plato says, they undertake to cut off the hydra’s head, who pretend to …
- Book 2 · Chapter 27 · ¶ 24.
Cowardice, Mother of Cruelty It is worthy of consideration that Laches in Plato, speaking of learning to fence after our manner, says that he never …
- Book 2 · Chapter 27 · ¶ 24.
Cowardice, Mother of Cruelty or correspondence; and in the education of the children of his government, Plato interdicts the art of boxing, introduced by Amycus and Epeius, and that …
- Book 2 · Chapter 28 · ¶ 13.
All Things Have Their Season younger Cato, feeling his end approach, and which he met with in Plato’s Discourse of the Eternity of the Soul: not, as we are to …
- Book 2 · Chapter 28 · ¶ 13.
All Things Have Their Season for of assurance, an established will and instruction, he had more than Plato had in all his writings; his knowledge and courage were in this …
- Book 2 · Chapter 31 · ¶ 15.
On Anger “if I were not in anger I would soundly drub your sides.” Plato likewise, being highly offended with one of his slaves, gave Speusippus order …
- Book 2 · Chapter 36 · ¶ 13.
On the Most Excellent Men though he is dead.” What did Panaetius leave unsaid when he called Plato the Homer of the philosophers? …
- Book 2 · Chapter 37 · ¶ 27.
On the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers to the contrary, we need no more but oppose the image of Plato being struck with an epilepsy or apoplexy; and, in this presupposition, to …
- Book 2 · Chapter 37 · ¶ 34.
On the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers ’Tis from the great Plato, that I lately learned, that of three sorts of motions which are …
- Book 2 · Chapter 37 · ¶ 40.
On the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers Plato said very well, that physicians were the only men who might lie …
- Book 2 · Chapter 37 · ¶ 80.
On the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers What Homer and Plato said of the Egyptians, that they were all physicians, may be said …
- Book 3 · Chapter 1 · ¶ 8.
On the Useful and the Honorable to make use of cozenage and impudence. It would become justice, and Plato himself, who countenances this manner of proceeding, to furnish me with other …
- Book 3 · Chapter 3 · ¶ 9.
On Three Kinds of Relations I dislike the advice of Plato, that men should always speak in a magisterial tone to their servants, …
- Book 3 · Chapter 3 · ¶ 15.
On Three Kinds of Relations and quote Plato and Aquinas in things the first man they meet could determine as …
- Book 3 · Chapter 3 · ¶ 22.
On Three Kinds of Relations nor those of others;❦ believing, according to the persuasion of Lysias in Plato, that they may with more utility and convenience surrender themselves up to …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 8.
On Some Verses of Virgil Plato ordains that old men should be present at the exercises, dances, and …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 28.
On Some Verses of Virgil I am very much of Plato’s opinion, who says that facile or harsh humors are great indications of …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 31.
On Some Verses of Virgil ’Tis a fine humor to strain the writings of Plato, to wrest his pretended intercourses with Phaedo, Dion, Stella, and Archeanassa. Non …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 72.
On Some Verses of Virgil desire: to evade which inconvenience, do but observe what pains Lycurgus and Plato take in their laws. …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 83.
On Some Verses of Virgil not known before, and digested without our help. Is it, perhaps, as Plato says, that they have formerly been debauched young fellows? I happened one …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 89.
On Some Verses of Virgil Of Former Delights? What do the so long and lively descriptions in Plato of the loves of his time pretend to? and the book called …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 100.
On Some Verses of Virgil The gods, says Plato, have given us one disobedient and unruly member that, like a furious …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 102.
On Some Verses of Virgil contempt of our natural furniture. And what do we know but that Plato, after other well-instituted republics, ordered that the men and women, old and …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 102.
On Some Verses of Virgil themselves little heeding to cover their thighs in walking, believing themselves, says Plato, sufficiently covered by their virtue without any other robe. But those, of …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 110.
On Some Verses of Virgil advanced to the first rank among the ladies of honor. Somebody told Plato that all the world spoke ill of him. “Let them talk,” said …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 185.
On Some Verses of Virgil in pain, fainting and complaining; I believe it to be true, as Plato says, that the gods made man for their sport, …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 190.
On Some Verses of Virgil other thought, and by its imperious authority makes an ass of all Plato’s divinity and philosophy; and yet there is no complaint of it. In …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 228.
On Some Verses of Virgil I commend a gradation and delay in bestowing their favors: Plato declares that, in all sorts of love, facility and promptness are forbidden …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 231.
On Some Verses of Virgil part it may fall out otherwise. For this reason it was, that Plato wisely made a law that before marriage, to determine of the fitness …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 287.
On Some Verses of Virgil Homer extends it so far as to the budding of the beard, Plato himself has remarked this as rare: and the reason why the sophist …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 291.
On Some Verses of Virgil her thighs, which is the highest price she can get for them? Plato ordains in his Laws that he who has performed any signal and …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 297.
On Some Verses of Virgil Plato indifferently invites both the one and the other to the society of …
- Book 3 · Chapter 7 · ¶ 12.
On the Inconvenience of High Status right. For Dionysius, because he could not equal Philoxenus in poetry and Plato in discourse, condemned the one to the quarries, and sent the other …
- Book 3 · Chapter 8 · ¶ 1.
On the Art of Discussion to others. To condemn them for having done amiss, were folly, as Plato says, for what is done can never be undone; but ’tis to …
- Book 3 · Chapter 8 · ¶ 16.
On the Art of Discussion of disputation is to lose and annihilate truth. Therefore it is that Plato in his Republic prohibits this exercise to fools and ill-bred people. …
- Book 3 · Chapter 8 · ¶ 20.
On the Art of Discussion method, ’tis then you who win. I am of opinion that, in Plato and Xenophon, Socrates disputes more in favor of the disputants than in …
- Book 3 · Chapter 8 · ¶ 24.
On the Art of Discussion judge than to the crime. Let us always have this saying of Plato in our mouths: “Do not I think things unsound, because I am …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 32.
On Vanity I perceive also the little means I have to supply it; and Plato, a master in all political government himself, nevertheless took care to abstain …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 42.
On Vanity fasten my own errors and inconveniences to the thing; nor to give Plato the lie, who looks upon it as the most pleasant employment to …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 52.
On Vanity their body with as much health and length of life as any Plato or Aristotle could invent. …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 65.
On Vanity that, in all likelihood, surpasses our understanding; a civil government is, as Plato says, a mighty and puissant thing, and hard to be dissolved; it …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 199.
On Vanity Plato says, that whoever escapes from the world’s handling with clean breeches, escapes …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 211.
On Vanity I have read a dialogue of Plato, of the like motley and fantastic composition, the beginning about love, and …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 211.
On Vanity love a poetic progress, by leaps and skips; ’tis an art, as Plato says, light, nimble, demoniac. There are pieces in Plutarch where he forgets …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 212.
On Vanity certainly prose ought to have the pre-eminence in speaking. The poet, says Plato, seated upon the muses tripod, pours out with fury whatever comes into …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 212.
On Vanity him of various colors, of contrary substance, and with an irregular torrent. Plato himself is throughout poetical; and the old theology, as the learned tell …
- Book 3 · Chapter 10 · ¶ 1.
On Conserving One’s Will himself betwixt the hatred of pain and the love of pleasure: and Plato sets down a middle path of life betwixt the two. …
- Book 3 · Chapter 10 · ¶ 62.
On Conserving One’s Will enjoyed the empire of the world in ease and peace. Alcibiades, in Plato, had rather die young, beautiful, rich, noble, and learned, and all this …
- Book 3 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 21.
On Physiognomy drug? No, said Favonius, not even the tyrannical usurpation of a Commonwealth. Plato, likewise, will not consent that a man should violate the peace of …
- Book 3 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 22.
On Physiognomy point, before I knew there had ever been such a man as Plato in the world. And if this person ought absolutely to be rejected …
- Book 3 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 22.
On Physiognomy is pretended by wicked men.❦ The extremest sort of injustice, according to Plato, is where that which is unjust, should be reputed for just. …
- Book 3 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 65.
On Physiognomy may be of use to some others. Such there are who quote Plato and Homer, who never saw either of them; and I also have …
- Book 3 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 70.
On Physiognomy that potent and advantageous quality: he called it “a short tyranny,” and Plato, “the privilege of nature.” We have nothing that excels it in reputation; …
- Book 3 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 70.
On Physiognomy willingly maintain the priority in good things, according to the song that Plato calls an idle thing, taken out of some ancient poet: “health, beauty, …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 5.
On Experience in its own nature, the mother of altercation and division; judging with Plato, “that lawyers and physicians are the pests of a country.” …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 33.
On Experience front of his temple, as comprehending all he had to advise us. Plato says also, that prudence is no other thing than the execution of …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 40.
On Experience judge a man whose ill qualities are more than his good ones: Plato requires three things in him who will examine the soul of another: …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 47.
On Experience professes always to have experience for the test of its operations: so Plato had reason to say that, to be a right physician, it would …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 54.
On Experience the same now that it was in the time of Homer and Plato. But is it not that we seek more honor from the quotation, …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 84.
On Experience of long years; as heat, rains, and winds are of long journeys. Plato does not believe that Aesculapius troubled himself to provide, by regimen, to …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 101.
On Experience me; and have ever repented going to sleep again in the morning. Plato is more angry at excess of sleeping, than at excess of drinking. …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 102.
On Experience the honor of this occupation, nay, even its hardships and difficulties, which Plato holds so light that, in his Republic, he makes women and children …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 115.
On Experience Plato, moreover, says, that ’tis the office of prudence to draw instructions of …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 125.
On Experience are done according to nature, are to be accounted good.❦ And so Plato likewise says, that the death which is occasioned by wounds and diseases …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 137.
On Experience it might not disturb the entertainment of discourse, for the reason, as Plato tells us, “that it is the custom of ordinary people to call …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 143.
On Experience that was all contemplation; Socrates one that was all conduct and action; Plato found a mean betwixt the two; but they only say this for …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 143.
On Experience the sake of talking. The true point is found in Socrates; and Plato is much more Socratic than Pythagoric, and it becomes him better. …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 151.
On Experience tender beginnings, and pleasure something of the evitable in its excessive end. Plato couples them together, and wills that it should be equally the office …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 161.
On Experience Socrates but his ecstasies and communication with daemons; nothing so human in Plato as that for which they say he was called divine; and of …