Plato Quotes
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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Time is the moving imago of the unmoving eternity.
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This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.
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Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.
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To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
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[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.
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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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There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.
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There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
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If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.
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He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity.
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... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.
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A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.
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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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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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Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.
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Better a good enemy than a bad friend.
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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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Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.
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I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.
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And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By maintaining a sound system of education you produce citizens of good character, and citizens of sound character, with the advantage of a good education, produce in turn children better than themselves and better able to produce still better children in their turn, as can be seen with animals.
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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
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The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; and these, it is said, are of the greatest service or of the greatest injury to the dead man, at the very beginning of his journey hither.
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Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?