Plato Quotes
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When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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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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I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogised, and to make this the foundation, and from these truths to choose the most beautiful things and arrange them in the most elegant way; and I was quite proud to think how well I should speak, because I believed that I knew the truth.
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Life must be lived as play.
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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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Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth.
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It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.
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For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.
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Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.
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Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.
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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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Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.
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The life which is not examined is not worth living.
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God is a geometrician.
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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.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?
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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.
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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 wrong use of a thing is far worse than the non-use.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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We are twice armed if we fight with faith.