Plato Quotes
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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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The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.
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Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.
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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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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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The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union.
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Excellent things are rare.
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Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.
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All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.
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In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.
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To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
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The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.
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Only the dead will know the end of the war.
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The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.
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They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
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Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.