Plato Quotes
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He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity.
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An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation.
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To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.
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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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This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.
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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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The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
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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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The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.
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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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No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul.
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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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And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent.
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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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The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals.
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My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.
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I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.
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And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.
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There is truth in wine and children.
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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
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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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Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.