Plato Quotes
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Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
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When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.
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Time is the moving imago of the unmoving eternity.
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... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.
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When there is crime in society, there is no justice.
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Every unjust man is unjust against his will.
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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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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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Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.
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Better a good enemy than a bad friend.
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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
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It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.
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Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.
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And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.
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Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
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Art has no end but its own perfection.
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To do wrong is the greatest of evils.
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You can't do good if you don't feel good.
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Friends should have all things in common.
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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.