For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

Quotern

For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

-- Plato

Copy

Recommended for You ...

Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.

-- Plato

Copy Detail

The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable. –

-- Plato

Copy Detail

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

-- Plato

Copy Detail

Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

-- Plato

Copy Detail

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

-- Plato

Copy Detail