Plato Quotes
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.
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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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He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity.
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The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed.
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The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.
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Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.
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There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
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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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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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God is not the author of all things, but of good only.
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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 measure of a man is what he does with power.
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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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We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.
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Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.
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Socrates: The disgrace begins when a man writes not well, but badly.Phaedrus: Clearly.Socrates: And what is well and what is badly-need we ask Lysias, or any other poet or orator, who ever wrote or will write either a political or any other work, in metre or out of metre, poet or prose writer, to teach us this?
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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
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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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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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[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.
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If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.
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I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.
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There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.