Plato
In the Essays of Michel de Montaigne
There are 200 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 I refer to her Plato’s cave in his Republic, and the physicians, who so often submit the …
- Book 1 · Chapter 22 · ¶ 7.
On Custom and Not Easily Changing an Accepted Law Plato reprehending a boy for playing at nuts, “Thou reprovest me,” says the …
- Book 1 · Chapter 22 · ¶ 7.
On Custom and Not Easily Changing an Accepted Law reprovest me,” says the boy, “for a very little thing.” “Custom,” replied Plato, “is no little thing.” I find that our greatest vices derive their …
- Book 1 · Chapter 22 · ¶ 21.
On Custom and Not Easily Changing an Accepted Law others, was very near being dissatisfied myself. ’Tis by this receipt that Plato undertakes to cure the unnatural and preposterous loves of his time, as …
- 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 …