Plato Quotes
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We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.
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To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.
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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
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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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It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
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Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.
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I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.
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Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.
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[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.
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In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions.
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There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.
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There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
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It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.
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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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Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.
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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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As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.
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God is truth and light his shadow.
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A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.
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Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
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Even the gods love jokes.
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Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you will with them.
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Time is the moving imago of the unmoving eternity.