Plato Quotes
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And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment.
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Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity.
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Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
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The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.
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Then the case is the same in all the other arts for the orator and his rhetoric; there is no need to know the truth of the actual matters, but one merely needs to have discovered some device of persuasion which will make one appear to those who do not know to know better than those who know.
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As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.
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Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union.
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Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?
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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
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But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?
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Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.
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Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied.
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You cannot go into the same water twice.
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Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.
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Excellent things are rare.
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And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.
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The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.
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When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness.
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We become what we contemplate.
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Pleasure is the bait of sin.
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τοῖς μὲν οὖν τότε, ἅτε οὐκ οὖσι σοφοῖς ὥσπερ ὑμεῖς οἱ νέοι, ἀπέχρη δρυὸς καὶ πέτρας ἀκούειν ὑπ᾽ εὐηθείας, εἰ μόνον ἀληθῆ λέγοιεν: σοὶ δ᾽ ἴσως διαφέρει τίς ὁ λέγων καὶ ποδαπός.