Plato Quotes
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What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.
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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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There is truth in wine and children.
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The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.
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As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.
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The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.
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I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with.
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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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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To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories.
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εὖ ἂν ἔχοι ... εἰ τοιοῦτον εἴη ἡ σοφία ὥστ᾽ ἐκ τοῦ πληρεστέρου εἰς τὸ κενώτερον ῥεῖν ἡμῶν...
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For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them.
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Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.
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And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.
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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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When there is crime in society, there is no justice.
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The beginning is the chiefest part of any work.
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Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body.
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Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake.
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May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.
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Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
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Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
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Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt.
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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.