Plato Quotes
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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.
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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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Life should be lived as play.
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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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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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Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.
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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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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul.
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There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.
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The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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There is truth in wine and children.
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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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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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When there is crime in society, there is no justice.
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All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.
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Love: a grave mental disease.
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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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Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself up as honored, not on his own account, but for the sake of his forefathers. Yet hereditary honors are a noble and splendid treasure to descendants.
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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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Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body.
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God forever geometrizes.