Plato Quotes
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Maximize the power of the beliefs that strengthen you and neutralize those that weaken you.
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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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Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.
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Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
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Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.
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In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions.
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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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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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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
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To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.
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If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
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A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service.
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The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.
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Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.
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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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As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.
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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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I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.
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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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May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?
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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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It is proper for every one to consider, in the case of all men, that he who has not been a servant cannot become a praiseworthy master; and it is meet that we should plume ourselves rather on acting the part of a servant properly than that of the master, first, towards the laws, (for in this way we are servants of the gods), and next, towards our elders.
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The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
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Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.