Plato Quotes
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I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.
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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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Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?
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If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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The greater part of instruction is being reminded of things you already know.
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If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.
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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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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
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He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.
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The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.
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Ignorance: the root of all evil.
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The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.
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No town can live peacefully whatever its laws when its citizens do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love.
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He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age.
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To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.
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Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government, nor yet can those who spend their lives as closet philosophers; because the former have no high purpose to guide their actions, while the latter keep aloof from public life.
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And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.
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Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
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Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.
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They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.
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He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.