Plato Quotes About Honor

Quotes about: Honor

• You should not honor men more than truth.

  Plato

  Truth, Honesty, Pride

• A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers.

  Plato

  Teacher, Honor, Degrees

• There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

  Plato

  Love, Wisdom, Plato

• The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved; so that he passes a wrong judgment on what is just, good and beautiful, thinking that he ought always to honor what belongs to himself in preference to truth. For he who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself, or by another.

  Plato

  Beautiful, Men, Thinking

• Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.

  Plato

  Army, Honor, Doe

  Plato (1872). “Laws. Appendix: Lesser Hippias. First Alcibiades. Menexenus. Index of persons and places”, p.256

• For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them

  Plato

  Men, Giving, Honor

  Plato, Francis Macdonald Cornford, Alfred Edward Taylor (1985). “The banquet (also known as The symposium)”

• Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

  Plato

  Plato, Honor, Noble

• ... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.

  Plato

  Political, Honor, Politics

  Plato (1963). “The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters”, Bollingen

• To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

  Plato

  Running, Men, Hymns

• Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.

  Plato

  Men, Honor, Desire

• Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself up as honored, not on his own account, but for the sake of his forefathers. Yet hereditary honors are a noble and splendid treasure to descendants.

  Plato

  Men, Thinking, Honor

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