Plato Quotes
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He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.
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In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.
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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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Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?
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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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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
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They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.
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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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The race of the guardians must be kept pure.
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Justice is having and doing what is one's own.
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Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.
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A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods.
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When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre.
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Courage is a kind of salvation.
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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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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 Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.
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No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul.
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That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless.
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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
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Consider how great is the encouragement which all the world gives to the lover; neither is he supposed to be doing anything dishonourable; but if he succeeds he is praised, and if he fail he is blamed.
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Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.