Plato Quotes
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Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.
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Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.
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If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.
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Friends should have all things in common.
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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 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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Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.
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There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
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A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.
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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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Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls.
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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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A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.
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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.
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A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.
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At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.
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I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools.
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Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.
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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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By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.
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Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?
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Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject.