Plato Quotes
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To a good man nothing that happens is evil.
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Be kind, for everyone is having a hard battle.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
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Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay.
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No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.
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Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth.
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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
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But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?
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Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.
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He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
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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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If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one.
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That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with the help of sensation and without reason, is always in a process of becoming and perishing and never really is.
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... our purpose in founding our state was not to promote the happiness of a single class, but, so far as possible, of the whole community. Our idea was that we were most likely to justice in such a community, and so be able to decide the question we are trying to answer. We are therefore at the moment trying to construct what we think is a happy community by securing the happiness not of a select minority, but of a whole.
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What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.
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Through obedience learn to command.
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Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.
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The wisdom of men is worth little or nothing.
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Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough.
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Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.
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The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one ... Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.
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Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.
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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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These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.