Plato Quotes
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All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.
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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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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
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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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No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
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Friends should have all things in common.
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Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.
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I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax... and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget or do not know.
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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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To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.
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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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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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There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
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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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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.
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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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For a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.
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... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.
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...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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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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All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.
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When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.
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Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil.
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It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.