Plato Quotes
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It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.
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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
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[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.
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Every unjust man is unjust against his will.
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Time is the moving imago of the unmoving eternity.
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It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.
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The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.
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A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.
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The good is the beautiful.
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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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There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
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Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?
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We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men with the best of our women as often as possible, and the inferior men with the inferior women as seldom as possible, and keep only the offspring of the best.
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You can't do good if you don't feel good.
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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
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Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.
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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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Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?
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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.
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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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The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
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I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.