Plato Quotes
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Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
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No one should be discouraged, Theaetetus, who can make constant progress, even though it be slow.
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Better a good enemy than a bad friend.
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Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?
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He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a marvelous beauty, the source of all our efforts.
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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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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
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Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.
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It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.
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The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.
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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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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
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The good is the beautiful.
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Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.
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. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .
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Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.
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No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
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To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.
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Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?
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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
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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 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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There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers.
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Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.