Plato Quotes
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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
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The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.
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Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.
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Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.
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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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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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He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.
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It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
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Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.
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He who love touches walks not in darkness.
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Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.
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The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.
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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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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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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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Man - a being in search of meaning.
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But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.
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Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been.
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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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Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.
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Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and on earth; and he who would be blessed and happy should be from the first a partaker of truth, for then he can be trusted.
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He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.