Plato Quotes
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We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year.
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Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.
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Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.
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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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No soul willfully does wrong.
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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
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The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.
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Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this is true, it would be absurd to be eager for nothing but this all their lives, and then to be troubled when that came for which they had all along been eagerly practicing.
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Justice is having and doing what is one's own.
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.
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The wisest have the most authority.
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Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.
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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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When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.
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For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have known how to speak not of one theme only, but of all; and therefore God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us.
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Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.
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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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The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.
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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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Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.
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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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Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness.
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A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.