Plato Quotes
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Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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I have good hope that there is something after death.
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No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul.
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The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.
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There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
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Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.
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And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine.
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Music is to the mind as air is to the body.
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The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.
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What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.
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Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
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The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.
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Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.
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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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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
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Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.
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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 philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.
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When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
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The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of bad men, and, growing like them, to fly from the conversation of the good, and be cut off from them, and cleave to and follow after the company of the bad.
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When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.
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Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.
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Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.