Plato Quotes
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Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.
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You must base the Wisdom on Love.
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Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness.
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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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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.
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Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.
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It is right to give every man his due.
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As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.
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He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.
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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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Man was not made for himself alone.
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We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.
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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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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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Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
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Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.
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He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.
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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
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Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.
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If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.
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It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
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God is truth and light his shadow.