The matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice ...
Weitere Zitate von Plato
Zum Autor"The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines."
"The tools that would teach men their own use would be beyond price."
"Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery."
"Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly."
"As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him."
"... When someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but he'll take into consideration whether it has come from a brighter life and is dimmed through not having yet become accustomed to the dark or whether it has come from greater ignorance into greater light and is dazzled by the increased brillance."