Plato Quotes
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He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
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For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out of glens and gardens of the Muses, and they bring them as bees do honey, flying like the bees? And what they say is true, for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him. So long as he has this in his possession, no man is able to make poetry or to chant in prophecy.
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The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.
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Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
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Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?
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When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.
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I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.
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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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For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other men, on whose good or evil actions his own doings are compelled to hinge,--such a one, I say, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation; this is the man of manly character and of wisdom.
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From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.
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When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
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Ignorance: the root of all evil.
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Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors.
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Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.
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To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.
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Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserve.
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Science is nothing but perception.
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Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness.
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From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the world order.
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The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.
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The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.
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For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is no longer with him. When he has not attained this state he is powerless and unable to utter his oracles.
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The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.