Plato Quotes
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Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?
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Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
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...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.
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Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it.
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Those who have knowledge are more confident than those who have no knowledge, and they are more confident after they have learned than before.
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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
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God forever geometrizes.
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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
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Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and spirit respectively: he is disciplined when spirit and appetite are in proper subordination to reason. He is just in virtue of the harmony which exists when all three elements of the mind perform their proper function and so achieve their proper fulfillment; he is unjust when no such harmony exists.
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It would be better for me … that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.
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Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
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There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
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All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.
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Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.
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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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To do wrong is the greatest of evils.
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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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One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay.
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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True opinions are a fine thing and do all sorts of good so long as they stay in their place; but they will not stay long. They run away from a man's mind, so they are not worth much until you tether them by working out the reason. Once they are tied down, they become knowledge, and are stable.
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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.