You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Tag: Plato
He was a wise man who invented God.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
…Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded…
But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates.
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.