Plato Quotes
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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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It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.
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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
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He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.
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All men, well interrogated, answer well.
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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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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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You should not honor men more than truth.
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The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful.
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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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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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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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Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.
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He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit.
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You must base the Wisdom on Love.
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The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all.
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Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.
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Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.
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I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.
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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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An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
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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.'