Plato Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• . . . you did not seem to me over-fond of money. And this is the way in general with those who have not made it themselves, while those who have are twice as fond of it as anyone else. For just as poets are fond of their own poems, and fathers of their own children, so money-makers become devoted to money, not only because, like other people, they find it useful, but because it's their own creation.

  Plato

  Money, Children, Father

  Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

• They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

  Plato

  Wisdom, Father, Poetry

• For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.

  Plato

  Love, Children, Plato

  Plato (2005). “The Republic”, p.20, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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