Plato Quotes
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.
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The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.
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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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...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.
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When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.
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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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Love is a grave mental illness.
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What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play.
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Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play.
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You want to know whether I can make a long speech, such as you are in the habit of hearing; but that is not my way.
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I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.
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Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them.
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Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.
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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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It is beautiful to wish to add another's light to your own.
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Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.
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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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As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.
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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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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
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Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.