Plato Quotes
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The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet.
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Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.
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You can't do good if you don't feel good.
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He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.
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Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?
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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
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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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He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.
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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 point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods.
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For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.
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Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.
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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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So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises authority over the rest. And the smallest class is the one which naturally possesses that form of knowledge which alone of all others deserves the title of wisdom.
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The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful.
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For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them.
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You should not honor men more than truth.
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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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The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed.
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You want to know whether I can make a long speech, such as you are in the habit of hearing; but that is not my way.
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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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A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service.
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The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
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Even the gods love jokes.