Plato Quotes
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Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
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Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
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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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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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Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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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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There is truth in wine and children.
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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 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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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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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
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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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The doctors will treat those of your citizens whose physical and psychological constitution is good: as for the others, they will leave the unhealthy to die and those whose psychological constitution is incurably warped they will be put to death.
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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.
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Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.
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Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body.
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Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.
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I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency.
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Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives like receives nothing from like.
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Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.
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It is beautiful to wish to add another's light to your own.