Plato Quotes
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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.
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Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it as much as he loves truth... And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?
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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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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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The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.
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The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.
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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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I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools.
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Geometry draws the soul towards truth.
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Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.
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Let brother help brother.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.
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To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.
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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
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In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.
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Art has no end but its own perfection.
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Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.
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Do not expect justice where might is right.
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Wine fills the heart with courage.
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I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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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.