Plato Quotes
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May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?
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Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.
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What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.
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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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No one should be discouraged, Theaetetus, who can make constant progress, even though it be slow.
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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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Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt.
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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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When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.
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Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.
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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
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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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To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
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Friends should have all things in common.
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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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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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Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.
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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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I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax... and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget or do not know.
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May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.
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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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Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?
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No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
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It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.