Plato Quotes
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For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.
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If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.
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From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.
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Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.
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I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
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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 cure of the part should not be attempted without the cure of the whole.
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A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.
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The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.
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Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.
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The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.
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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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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
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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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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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As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.
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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
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Self conquest is the greatest of victories.
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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.
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A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods.
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People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.
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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 man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.
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What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.