Plato Quotes
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Necessity is literally the mother of invention.
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There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.
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No man should be angry with what is true.
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Time is the moving imago of the unmoving eternity.
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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
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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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For a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.
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Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives like receives nothing from like.
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You can't do good if you don't feel good.
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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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The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.
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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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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
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Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.
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The power to learn is present in everyone's soul, and the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body.
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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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A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
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Friends should have all things in common.
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If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.
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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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The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
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Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.
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To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.