Plato Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

  Plato

  Family, Children, Plato

  Plato, Charles Henry Augustus Bulkley (1876). “Plato's Best Thoughts: Compiled from Prof. Jowett's Translation of the Dialogues of Plato”, p.62

• Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

  Plato

  Luxury, Parent, Poverty

  Plato (2012). “The Republic and Other Works”, p.110, Anchor

• Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

  Plato

  Parenting, Parent, Quarrels

• The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.

  Plato

  Children, Parent, Use

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.235, Aegitas

• And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent.

  Plato

  Children, War, Sleep

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

• The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.

  Plato

  Plato, Parent, Noble

  Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.974, Delphi Classics

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