Plato Quotes
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
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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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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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Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
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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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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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ἐπ᾽ εὐτυχίᾳ τῇ μεγίστῃ παρὰ θεῶν ἡ τοιαύτη μανία sc. ὁ ἔρως δίδοται
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All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.
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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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The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union.
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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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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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The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.
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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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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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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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You cannot go into the same water twice.
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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.