Plato Quotes
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For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.
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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
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The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.
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The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all.
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The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark - to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls, by rare fortune, are detained longer - have time to grasp a handful of tapers, which they weave into a torch. These are the torch-bearers of humanity - its poets, seers and saints, who lead and lift the race out of darkness, toward the light. They are the law-givers and saviors, the light-bringers, way-showers and truth-tellers, and without them, humanity would lose its way in the dark.
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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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Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.
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You must base the Wisdom on Love.
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God is not the author of all things, but of good only.
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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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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.
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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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My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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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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If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful.
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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All knowledge is but remembrance.
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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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Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you will with them.
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All men, well interrogated, answer well.
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The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.