Plato Quotes
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Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.
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When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.
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Geometry existed before creation.
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Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom.
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Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.
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No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism.
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And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.
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By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.
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Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.
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Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.
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If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection.
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
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Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not.
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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
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There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who deprives himself by violence of his appointed share of life. Not because the law of the state requires him. Nor yet under the compulsion of some painful and inevitable misfortune which has come upon him. Nor because he has had to suffer from irremediable and intolerable shame, but who from sloth or want of manliness imposes upon himself an unjust penalty.
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In an honest man there is always something of a child.
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The orators - and the despots - have the least power in their cities … since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.
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... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.
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It is impossible to conceive of many without one.
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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses.
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So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality must survey.