Plato Quotes
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The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed.
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
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Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.
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Those who have knowledge are more confident than those who have no knowledge, and they are more confident after they have learned than before.
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Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.
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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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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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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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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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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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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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An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
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May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?
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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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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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To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.
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The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.
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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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Even the gods love jokes.
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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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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
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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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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.