Plato Quotes
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.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.
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I prefer nothing, unless it is true.
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And the first step, as you know, is always what matters most, particularly when we are dealing with those who are young and tender. That is the time when they are taking shape and when any impression we choose to make leaves a permanent mark.
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Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function correctly.
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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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The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
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To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
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O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better... In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven.
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This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
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Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.
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Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.
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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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People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.
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Love is a severe mental disorder.
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A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers.
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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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Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.
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The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.
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Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.
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For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
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The race of the guardians must be kept pure.
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At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters.
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As the government is, such will be the man.
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The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking up and round the prospect wide, When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried.