Plato Quotes
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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Every unjust man is unjust against his will.
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As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.
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It is right to give every man his due.
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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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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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Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.
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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 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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Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.
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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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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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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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Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness.
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Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of money, and money has to be acquired for the same and service of the body.
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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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An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
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You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.
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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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The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful.