Plato Quotes
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God is truth and light his shadow.
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They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'
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[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.
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For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.
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No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.
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Not by force shall the children learn, but through play.
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He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.
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To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
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Better a good enemy than a bad friend.
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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
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Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.
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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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When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.
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We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.
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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
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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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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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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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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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The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed.
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Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?
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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
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Even the gods love jokes.