Plato Quotes
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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
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Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.
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Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.
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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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Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.
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And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.
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Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.
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If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.
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No one can escape his destiny.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
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Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.
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That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed.
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The cure of the part should not be attempted without the cure of the whole.
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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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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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Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.
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What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.