Plato Quotes
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Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.
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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
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They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'
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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 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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Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.
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Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.
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For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.
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If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection.
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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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Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.
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The doctors will treat those of your citizens whose physical and psychological constitution is good: as for the others, they will leave the unhealthy to die and those whose psychological constitution is incurably warped they will be put to death.
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He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit.
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What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.
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'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation', he said, 'but you might succeed with the second and later generations.'
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A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.
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Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
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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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Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.
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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
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Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake.
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And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine.