Plato Quotes
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Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been.
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It is right to give every man his due.
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A person who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he or she ought only to consider whether in doing anything he or she is doing right or wrong- acting the part of a good person or a bad person.
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Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
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But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best.
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The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
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Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.
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The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.
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Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.
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To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.
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The good is the beautiful.
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No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.
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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 it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.
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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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Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.
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He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.
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Interference by the three classes with each other s jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to our state, and we are entirely justified in calling it the worst of evils.
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I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.
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The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
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If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange.
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Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain.
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As the government is, such will be the man.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.