Plato Quotes
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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 cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.
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... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.
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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.
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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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Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.
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To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.
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You must base the Wisdom on Love.
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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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To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
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Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?
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Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you will with them.
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Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
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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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There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.
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Necessity is literally the mother of invention.
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I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.
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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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All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
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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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He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity.
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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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Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.