Plato Quotes
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Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.
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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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Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.
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Man - a being in search of meaning.
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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
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He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act.
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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!
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Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.
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I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.
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Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.
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We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year.
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Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.
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Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.
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What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.
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Do thine own work, and know thyself.
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A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.
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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
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He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit.
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I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word.
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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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If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
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Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods.
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To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.
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The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.