Plato Quotes
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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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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
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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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The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.
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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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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
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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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An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
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Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.
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Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.
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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
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Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.
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You must base the Wisdom on Love.
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The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; and these, it is said, are of the greatest service or of the greatest injury to the dead man, at the very beginning of his journey hither.
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The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.
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Even the gods love jokes.
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The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging.
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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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He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.
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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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Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.
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Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.
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The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful.
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Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?