Plato Quotes
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In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.
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Man is a biped without feathers.
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Kindness which is bestowed on the good is never lost.
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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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If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.
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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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Love is a severe mental disorder.
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Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.
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Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.
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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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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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The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.
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So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.
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Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.
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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
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God ever geometrizes.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.
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As the government is, such will be the man.
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As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.
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To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.
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The race of the guardians must be kept pure.
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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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I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.