Plato Quotes
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They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
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Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike.
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The soul should concentrate itself by itself.
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If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.
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The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.
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When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness.
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...the Gods too love a joke.
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Our need will be the real creator.
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ἐπ᾽ εὐτυχίᾳ τῇ μεγίστῃ παρὰ θεῶν ἡ τοιαύτη μανία sc. ὁ ἔρως δίδοται
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Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
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He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
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Then the case is the same in all the other arts for the orator and his rhetoric; there is no need to know the truth of the actual matters, but one merely needs to have discovered some device of persuasion which will make one appear to those who do not know to know better than those who know.
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
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The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.
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'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'
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τοῖς μὲν οὖν τότε, ἅτε οὐκ οὖσι σοφοῖς ὥσπερ ὑμεῖς οἱ νέοι, ἀπέχρη δρυὸς καὶ πέτρας ἀκούειν ὑπ᾽ εὐηθείας, εἰ μόνον ἀληθῆ λέγοιεν: σοὶ δ᾽ ἴσως διαφέρει τίς ὁ λέγων καὶ ποδαπός.
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τὸν μὲν οὖν ποιητὴν καὶ πατέρα τοῦδε τοῦ παντὸς εὑρεῖν τε ἔργον καὶ εὑρόντα εἰς πάντας ἀδύνατον λέγειν
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Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.
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You cannot go into the same water twice.
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It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.
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Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation.
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Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
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We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.