Plato Quotes
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Any peace is better than any war.
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It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice.
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As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.
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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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To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
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An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
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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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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.
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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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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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He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit.
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The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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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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They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'
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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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It is right to give every man his due.
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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.
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God is a geometrician.
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I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.
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May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?