Plato Quotes
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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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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul.
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Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and spirit respectively: he is disciplined when spirit and appetite are in proper subordination to reason. He is just in virtue of the harmony which exists when all three elements of the mind perform their proper function and so achieve their proper fulfillment; he is unjust when no such harmony exists.
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Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake.
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True opinions are a fine thing and do all sorts of good so long as they stay in their place; but they will not stay long. They run away from a man's mind, so they are not worth much until you tether them by working out the reason. Once they are tied down, they become knowledge, and are stable.
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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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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
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The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.
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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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Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
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The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
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To do wrong is the greatest of evils.
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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
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Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.
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All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.
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The prisoner grows to love his chains.
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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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Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
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When there is crime in society, there is no justice.
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The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of words and deeds arranged in the Dorian mode. Such a one makes me joyous with the sound of his voice, so eager am I in drinking in his words.
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All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.