Plato Quotes
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Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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Self conquest is the greatest of victories.
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The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been.
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The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
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Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.
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No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.
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He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.
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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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Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure.
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From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.
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If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.
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If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
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A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods.
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The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.
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What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.
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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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There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric... But he, who, not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art - he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man is nowhere at all when he enters into rivalry with the madman.
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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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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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Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?
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I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word.