Plato Quotes
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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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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.
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Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.
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... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
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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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εὖ ἂν ἔχοι ... εἰ τοιοῦτον εἴη ἡ σοφία ὥστ᾽ ἐκ τοῦ πληρεστέρου εἰς τὸ κενώτερον ῥεῖν ἡμῶν...
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God is truth and light his shadow.
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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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When there is crime in society, there is no justice.
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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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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
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Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.
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I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.
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Life must be lived as play.
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Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.
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My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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The prisoner grows to love his chains.
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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.