Plato Quotes
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Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.
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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.
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There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
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My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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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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Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.
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... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may be, as the surest way to make them behave humanely to each other and the subjects in their charge.
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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
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The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
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If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.
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Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness.
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People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.
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Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.
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The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
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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 greater part of instruction is being reminded of things you already know.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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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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Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
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If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.
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Integrity is your destiny-it is the light that guides your way.
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If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.
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Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.
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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.