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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Philosophy is the highest music.
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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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Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
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Friends have all things in common.
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That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness.
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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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All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.
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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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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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When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.
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The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union.
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The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.
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Excellent things are rare.
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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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The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.
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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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We become what we contemplate.
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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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Pleasure is the bait of sin.
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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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And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.
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Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.
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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.