Plato Quotes
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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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Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.
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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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Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.
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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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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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Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.
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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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The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.
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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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He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit.
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Man - a being in search of meaning.
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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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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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A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.
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And the first step, as you know, is always what matters most, particularly when we are dealing with those who are young and tender. That is the time when they are taking shape and when any impression we choose to make leaves a permanent mark.
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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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Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.
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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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Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.
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Do thine own work, and know thyself.
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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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The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.
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Man is a biped without feathers.