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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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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He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.
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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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The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful.
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You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.
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I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.
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There is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would appear so to the majority of those who will give judgment; and not what is really good or beautiful but whatever will appear so; because persuasion comes from that and not from the truth.
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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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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
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Self conquest is the greatest of victories.
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The good is the beautiful.
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Man's greatest victory is over oneself.
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Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
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Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
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Every unjust man is unjust against his will.
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An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
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It is right to give every man his due.
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The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.
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We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men with the best of our women as often as possible, and the inferior men with the inferior women as seldom as possible, and keep only the offspring of the best.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.
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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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We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
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'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation', he said, 'but you might succeed with the second and later generations.'