Plato Quotes
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So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.
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He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.
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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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'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.'
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To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.
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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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The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed.
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
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Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.
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Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
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It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.
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An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
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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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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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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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Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.
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There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.
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Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul.
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Not by force shall the children learn, but through play.
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God is truth and light his shadow.
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A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.
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Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you will with them.
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Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.