Plato Quotes
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That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless.
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The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.
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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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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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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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Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of money, and money has to be acquired for the same and service of the body.
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Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.
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Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?
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Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.
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What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.
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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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Science is nothing but perception.
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In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.
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To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories.
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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 ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.
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Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
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Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul.
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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
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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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The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet.