Plato Quotes
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Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.
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I have this tattooed on my left side! I love the saying and it's a perfect description of Karma, don't judge/discriminate and don't do to someone what you wouldn't want done to you.
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Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.
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And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound. The artist knows nothing worth mentioning about the subjects he represents, and that art is a form of play, not to be taken seriously.
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As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.
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The beginning is the chiefest part of any 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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All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.
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Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.
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In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.
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Love is a grave mental illness.
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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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There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.
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Do not expect justice where might is right.
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Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.
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Wine fills the heart with courage.
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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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You get to know someone better by playing for an hour than by talking for a year.
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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
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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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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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Democracy passes into despotism.
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All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.
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You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.