Plato Quotes
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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.
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The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.
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Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain.
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I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.
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And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?
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For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.
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He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
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The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.
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I have good hope that there is something after death.
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The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet.
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The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.
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If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.
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Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.
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Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
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Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.
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He who love touches walks not in darkness.
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The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.
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Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?
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What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?
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Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.
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Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?
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To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.
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God is a geometrician.
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Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.