Plato Quotes
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Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
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Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.
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Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.
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The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
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The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.
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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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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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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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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.
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You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.
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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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Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul.
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It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.
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Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.
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For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.
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It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.
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For a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.
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... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.
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Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.
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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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Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.
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The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed.
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The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods.