Plato Quotes
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To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.
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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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As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.
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As the government is, such will be the man.
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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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And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who deprives himself by violence of his appointed share of life. Not because the law of the state requires him. Nor yet under the compulsion of some painful and inevitable misfortune which has come upon him. Nor because he has had to suffer from irremediable and intolerable shame, but who from sloth or want of manliness imposes upon himself an unjust penalty.
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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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It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice.
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Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.
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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
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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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If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
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Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.
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Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.
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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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It is proper for every one to consider, in the case of all men, that he who has not been a servant cannot become a praiseworthy master; and it is meet that we should plume ourselves rather on acting the part of a servant properly than that of the master, first, towards the laws, (for in this way we are servants of the gods), and next, towards our elders.
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For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless he knows what he means?
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For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
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Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness.
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The good is the beautiful.