Plato Quotes
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Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.
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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.
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Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.
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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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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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Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.
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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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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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God is not the author of all things, but of good only.
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Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods.
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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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Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
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A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service.
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All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
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Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.
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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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Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
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For a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.