Plato Quotes
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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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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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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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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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There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
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No one should be discouraged, Theaetetus, who can make constant progress, even though it be slow.
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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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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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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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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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When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.
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The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
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Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.
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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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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
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It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.
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You can't do good if you don't feel good.
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No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
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The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark - to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls, by rare fortune, are detained longer - have time to grasp a handful of tapers, which they weave into a torch. These are the torch-bearers of humanity - its poets, seers and saints, who lead and lift the race out of darkness, toward the light. They are the law-givers and saviors, the light-bringers, way-showers and truth-tellers, and without them, humanity would lose its way in the dark.
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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 wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.
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The good is the beautiful.
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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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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.