Plato Quotes
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The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.
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For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.
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We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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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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Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love - all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce.
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As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
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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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I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.
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Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.
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Everything changes and nothing remains still.
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He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's "uses base" for the sake of money; but this is not honourable.
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In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.
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He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life.
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Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
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There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.
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And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves, then he will gaze upon the light of the moon and the stars and the spangled heaven...Last of all he will be able to see the sun.
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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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The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.
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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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Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.