Plato Quotes
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A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.
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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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The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.
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Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
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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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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
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I have good hope that there is something after death.
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When two friends are in the mood to chat, we have to go about it in a gentler and more dialectical way. By 'more dialectical,' I mean not only that we give real responses, but that we base our responses solely on what the interlocutor admits that he himself knows.
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God is a geometrician.
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There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric... But he, who, not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art - he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man is nowhere at all when he enters into rivalry with the madman.
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
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The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.
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Music is to the mind as air is to the body.
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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
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They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.
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Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.
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Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.
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Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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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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Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.
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Is virtue something that can be taught?