Plato Quotes About Wine

Quotes about: Wine

• There is truth in wine and children

  Plato

  Children, Wine

  Plato (1989). “Symposium”, p.69, Hackett Publishing

• Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

  Plato

  Wine, Men, Granted

• When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

  Plato

  Wine, Men, Dinner

• What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?

  Plato

  Taken, Wine, Character

  Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.2694, Delphi Classics

• Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

  Plato

  Wine, Boys, Fire

• To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.

  Plato

  Art, Learning, Wine

  Plato (1871). “Gorgias. Philebus. Parmenides. Theaetetus. Sophist. Statesman”, p.106

• Wine fills the heart with courage.

  Plato

  Heart, Wine

• And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine

  Plato

  Drinking, Wine, Lovers

  Plato, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Plato Collection [47 Books]”, p.1613, Catholic Way Publishing

• Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth.

  Plato

  Teaching, Wine, Exercise

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