Plato Quotes
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To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
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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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The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.
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Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.
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A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.
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There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
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All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
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Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.
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A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
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Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.
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Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.
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He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity.
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Socrates: The disgrace begins when a man writes not well, but badly.Phaedrus: Clearly.Socrates: And what is well and what is badly-need we ask Lysias, or any other poet or orator, who ever wrote or will write either a political or any other work, in metre or out of metre, poet or prose writer, to teach us this?
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'But surely "blind" is just how you would describe men who have no true knowledge of reality, and no clear standard in their mind to refer to, as a painter refers to his model, and which they can study closely before they start laying down rules about what is fair or right or good where they are needed, or maintaining, as Guardians, any rules that already exist.' 'Yes, blind is just about what they are'
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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.
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All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
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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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There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.
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You can't do good if you don't feel good.
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The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.