Plato Quotes
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.
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Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
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A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a good man or of a bad.
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That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless.
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The cure of the part should not be attempted without the cure of the whole.
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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
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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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Putting the shoe on the wrong foot.
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Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp.
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Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.
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Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.
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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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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
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As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness.
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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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Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all these were in a state devoid of reason or measure, but when the work of setting in order this Universe was being undertaken, fire and water and earth and air, although possessing some traces of their known nature, were yet disposed as everything is likely to be in the absence of God; and inasmuch as this was then their natural condition, God began by first marking them out into shapes by means of forms and numbers.
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There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
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Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.
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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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A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
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Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.
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I have good hope that there is something after death.
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And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?