Plato Quotes
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When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.
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To do wrong is the greatest of evils.
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Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.
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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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All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.
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Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
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The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
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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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There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.
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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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The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.
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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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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.
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At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.
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Democracy passes into despotism.
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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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I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools.
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[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this leads to a lack of energy in the pursuit of it, and it is difficult. In the second place, students cannot learn it unless they have a teacher. But then a teacher can hardly be found.
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You cannot conceive the many without the one.
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Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.