Plato Quotes
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Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
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Do thine own work, and know thyself.
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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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Maximize the power of the beliefs that strengthen you and neutralize those that weaken you.
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In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like to interfere with us; and we are free, and masters of others; and these things will be really ours, for we shall turn them to our good.
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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
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Any peace is better than any war.
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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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Music is to the mind as air is to the body.
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Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.
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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.
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For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.
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All men, well interrogated, answer well.
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What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?
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And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?
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Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness.
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For a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.
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If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.
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Man is a biped without feathers.
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The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.