Plato Quotes
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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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The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.
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No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul.
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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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The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.
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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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A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.
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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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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?
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They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.
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The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.
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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
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Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.
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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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The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.
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That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless.
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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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What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?
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The good are like one another, and friends to one another; and ... the bad, as is often said of them, are never at unity with one another or with themselves, but are passionate and restless: and that which is at variance and enmity with itself is not likely to be in union or harmony with any other thing.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet.