Plato Quotes
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When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.
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Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.
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He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a marvelous beauty, the source of all our efforts.
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You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.
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The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.
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There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.
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Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
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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 the language in which the gods talk to people.
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Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.
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The ultimate design of the Mysteries ... was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, ... a perfect enjoyment of intellectual [spiritual] good.
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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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Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.
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It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.
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All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.
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No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
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If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.
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Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this is true, it would be absurd to be eager for nothing but this all their lives, and then to be troubled when that came for which they had all along been eagerly practicing.
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I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency.
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Not by force shall the children learn, but through play.
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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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Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul.
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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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To do wrong is the greatest of evils.