Plato Quotes
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An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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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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The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.
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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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In an honest man there is always something of a child.
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The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all.
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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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He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity.
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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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All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
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The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.
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Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.
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All knowledge is but remembrance.
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Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth.
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For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.
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The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.
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Time is the moving imago of the unmoving eternity.
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A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and on earth; and he who would be blessed and happy should be from the first a partaker of truth, for then he can be trusted.
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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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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
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Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain.