Plato Quotes
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We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.
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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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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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The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.
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Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity.
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Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
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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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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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Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
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As you hope to prove your own great value to the state, and having proved it, to attain at once to absolute power, so do I indulge a hope that I shall be the supreme power over you, if I am able to prove my own great value to you.
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As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.
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The god is the beautiful.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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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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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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Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.
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Our need will be the real creator.
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We become what we contemplate.
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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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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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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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All soul is immortal. For that which is always in movement is immortal; that which moves something else, and is moved by something else, in ceasing from movement ceases from living. So only that which moves itself, because it does not abandon itself, never stops moving. But it is also source and first principle of movement for the other things which move.
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You cannot go into the same water twice.