Plato Quotes
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I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.
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The good is the beautiful.
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A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.
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God ever geometrizes.
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There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers.
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It is right to give every man his due.
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What a handsome face he had: but if he were naked you would forget he had a face, he is so beautiful in every way.
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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 excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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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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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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The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.
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For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
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[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.
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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 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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The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed.
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The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has in fact been followed throughout, the principle of one man one job, of minding one s own business , in the sense of doing the job for which one is naturally fitted and not interfering with other people.
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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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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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There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.
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The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.