Plato Quotes
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For our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.
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Each living creature is said to be alive and to be the same individual - as for example someone is said to be the same person from when he is a child until he comes to be an old man. And yet, if he's called the same, that's despite the fact that he's never made up from the same things, but is always being renewed, and losing what he had before, whether it's hair, or flesh, or bones, or blood, in fact the whole body.
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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
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Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
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The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
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I must yield to you, for you are irresistible.
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The greater part of instruction is being reminded of things you already know.
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Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.
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How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, "How does love suit with age, Sophocles - are you still the man you were?" he replied, "Peace, most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master."
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If we are to keep our flock at the highest pitch of excellence, there should be as many unions of the best of both sexes, and as few of the inferior as possible, and that only the offspring of the better unions should be kept.
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Beauty is a natural superiority.
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There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.
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As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.
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Integrity is your destiny-it is the light that guides your way.
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like to interfere with us; and we are free, and masters of others; and these things will be really ours, for we shall turn them to our good.
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Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.
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A work well begun is half-ended.
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The wisest have the most authority.
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Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.
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Observe that open loves are held to be more honourable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest, even if their persons are less beautiful than others, is especially honourable.
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Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.