Plato Quotes
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Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity.
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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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All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.
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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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That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness.
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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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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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The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union.
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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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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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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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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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You cannot go into the same water twice.
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The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.
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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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We become what we contemplate.
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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.
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Pleasure is the bait of sin.
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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.