Plato Quotes
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When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.
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No man should be angry with what is true.
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There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.
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When there is crime in society, there is no justice.
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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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The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
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The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.
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Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.
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For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them.
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εὖ ἂν ἔχοι ... εἰ τοιοῦτον εἴη ἡ σοφία ὥστ᾽ ἐκ τοῦ πληρεστέρου εἰς τὸ κενώτερον ῥεῖν ἡμῶν...
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Not by force shall the children learn, but through play.
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Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.
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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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Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul.
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Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.
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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
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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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Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.
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Life should be lived as play.
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I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.
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The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of words and deeds arranged in the Dorian mode. Such a one makes me joyous with the sound of his voice, so eager am I in drinking in his words.
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We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men with the best of our women as often as possible, and the inferior men with the inferior women as seldom as possible, and keep only the offspring of the best.