Plato Quotes
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If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful.
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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
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It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.
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There is truth in wine and children.
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To do wrong is the greatest of evils.
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Socrates: The disgrace begins when a man writes not well, but badly.Phaedrus: Clearly.Socrates: And what is well and what is badly-need we ask Lysias, or any other poet or orator, who ever wrote or will write either a political or any other work, in metre or out of metre, poet or prose writer, to teach us this?
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The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.
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You want to know whether I can make a long speech, such as you are in the habit of hearing; but that is not my way.
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May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.
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The good is the beautiful.
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A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.
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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 souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark - to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls, by rare fortune, are detained longer - have time to grasp a handful of tapers, which they weave into a torch. These are the torch-bearers of humanity - its poets, seers and saints, who lead and lift the race out of darkness, toward the light. They are the law-givers and saviors, the light-bringers, way-showers and truth-tellers, and without them, humanity would lose its way in the dark.
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Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.
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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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To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead.
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I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.
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Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you will with them.
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Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.
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Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.
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Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.
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Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body.
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Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.