Plato Quotes
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Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.
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Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
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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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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
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The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.
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There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.
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I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.
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What a handsome face he had: but if he were naked you would forget he had a face, he is so beautiful in every way.
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The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.
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The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet.
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You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.
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A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service.
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Man was not made for himself alone.
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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
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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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For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.
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For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless he knows what he means?
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As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.
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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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Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.
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If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
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No one should be discouraged, Theaetetus, who can make constant progress, even though it be slow.
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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.