Plato Quotes
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God forever geometrizes.
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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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Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.
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Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.
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There is truth in wine and children.
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All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.
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Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?
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Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.
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Necessity is literally the mother of invention.
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At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.
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When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.
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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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Friends should have all things in common.
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Democracy passes into despotism.
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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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The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.
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Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency.
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All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.
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Do not expect justice where might is right.
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The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.