Plato Quotes
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Better a good enemy than a bad friend.
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It would be better for me … that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.
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Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.
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Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
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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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Man was not made for himself alone.
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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
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Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.
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Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.
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As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.
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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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And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.
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Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.
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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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Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.
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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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Time is the moving imago of the unmoving eternity.
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May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?
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There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
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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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To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.
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May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.
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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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Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.