Plato Quotes
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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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Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.
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All men, well interrogated, answer well.
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I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.
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Every unjust man is unjust against his will.
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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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'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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The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging.
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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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It is right to give every man his due.
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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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May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.
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God is not the author of all things, but of good only.
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If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.
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We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
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In heaven there is laid up a pattern which he who chooses may behold, and beholding, set his own house in order. The time has now arrived at which they must raise the eye of the soul to the Universal Light which lightens all things. With the eye ever directed toward things fixed and immutable which neither injure nor are injured - these they cannot help imitating. But I quite admit the difficulty of believing that in every man there is an eye of the soul which by the right direction is re-illumined, and is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes.
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Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.
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Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?
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Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.
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The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
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No one should be discouraged, Theaetetus, who can make constant progress, even though it be slow.
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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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Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.