Plato Quotes
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The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.
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Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.
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No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul.
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Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.
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Those who have knowledge are more confident than those who have no knowledge, and they are more confident after they have learned than before.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging.
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.
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Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it as much as he loves truth... And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?
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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
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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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Life should be lived as play.
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God forever geometrizes.
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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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To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.
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Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?
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Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
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The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.
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The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has in fact been followed throughout, the principle of one man one job, of minding one s own business , in the sense of doing the job for which one is naturally fitted and not interfering with other people.
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Love: a grave mental disease.
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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.