Plato Quotes
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As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.
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Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.
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He who love touches walks not in darkness.
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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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What a handsome face he had: but if he were naked you would forget he had a face, he is so beautiful in every way.
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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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The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.
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Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.
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Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.
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All men, well interrogated, answer well.
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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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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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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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And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine.
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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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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
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Maximize the power of the beliefs that strengthen you and neutralize those that weaken you.
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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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Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and spirit respectively: he is disciplined when spirit and appetite are in proper subordination to reason. He is just in virtue of the harmony which exists when all three elements of the mind perform their proper function and so achieve their proper fulfillment; he is unjust when no such harmony exists.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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The wrong use of a thing is far worse than the non-use.
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The good are like one another, and friends to one another; and ... the bad, as is often said of them, are never at unity with one another or with themselves, but are passionate and restless: and that which is at variance and enmity with itself is not likely to be in union or harmony with any other thing.