Plato Quotes
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Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.
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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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Maximize the power of the beliefs that strengthen you and neutralize those that weaken you.
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Man was not made for himself alone.
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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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Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the state.
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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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In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.
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The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.
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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.
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If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.
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There is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would appear so to the majority of those who will give judgment; and not what is really good or beautiful but whatever will appear so; because persuasion comes from that and not from the truth.
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The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.
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Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.
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God is a geometrician.
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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
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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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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is not full authority for laws but rather full authority for a man who understands the art of kingship and has kingly ability.
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The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.