Plato Quotes
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To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.
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Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.
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A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.
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Man is a biped without feathers.
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The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.
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People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.
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Life must be lived as play.
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Do thine own work, and know thyself.
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Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.
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A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a good man or of a bad.
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For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other men, on whose good or evil actions his own doings are compelled to hinge,--such a one, I say, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation; this is the man of manly character and of wisdom.
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Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
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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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A person who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he or she ought only to consider whether in doing anything he or she is doing right or wrong- acting the part of a good person or a bad person.
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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
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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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And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?
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Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.
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But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best.
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I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.
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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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Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.