Plato Quotes
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Man's greatest victory is over oneself.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.
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The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.
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Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.
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But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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God ever geometrizes.
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God is truth and light his shadow.
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You must base the Wisdom on Love.
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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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God is not the author of all things, but of good only.
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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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Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.
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The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has in fact been followed throughout, the principle of one man one job, of minding one s own business , in the sense of doing the job for which one is naturally fitted and not interfering with other people.
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Even the gods love jokes.
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[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.
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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 first and the best victory is to conquer self.
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Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.
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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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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
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Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.