Plato Quotes
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Is virtue something that can be taught?
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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
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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 cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.
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We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.
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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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The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet.
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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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There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.
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Even the gods love jokes.
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Consider how great is the encouragement which all the world gives to the lover; neither is he supposed to be doing anything dishonourable; but if he succeeds he is praised, and if he fail he is blamed.
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In an honest man there is always something of a child.
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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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Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.
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[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.
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The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed.
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In heaven there is laid up a pattern which he who chooses may behold, and beholding, set his own house in order. The time has now arrived at which they must raise the eye of the soul to the Universal Light which lightens all things. With the eye ever directed toward things fixed and immutable which neither injure nor are injured - these they cannot help imitating. But I quite admit the difficulty of believing that in every man there is an eye of the soul which by the right direction is re-illumined, and is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes.
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To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead.
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The Graces sought some holy ground, Whose sight should ever please; And in their search the soul they found Of Aristophanes.
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Socrates: The shoemaker, for example, uses a square tool, and a circular tool, and other tools for cutting?
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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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The good are like one another, and friends to one another; and ... the bad, as is often said of them, are never at unity with one another or with themselves, but are passionate and restless: and that which is at variance and enmity with itself is not likely to be in union or harmony with any other thing.
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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.