Plato Quotes
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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
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Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.
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The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.
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And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By maintaining a sound system of education you produce citizens of good character, and citizens of sound character, with the advantage of a good education, produce in turn children better than themselves and better able to produce still better children in their turn, as can be seen with animals.
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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 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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All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.
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Man's greatest victory is over oneself.
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Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake.
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Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.
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The power to learn is present in everyone's soul, and the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body.
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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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The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals.
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Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.
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Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
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Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.
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If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.
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Better a good enemy than a bad friend.
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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
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God is not the author of all things, but of good only.
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All knowledge is but remembrance.
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Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.
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... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.
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The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging.