Plato Quotes
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Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.
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Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.
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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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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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The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.
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Love: a grave mental disease.
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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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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
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God forever geometrizes.
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Friends should have all things in common.
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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
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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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To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.
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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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Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.
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All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.
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...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.
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Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.
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The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort.
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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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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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The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.