Plato Quotes
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It is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.
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Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation.
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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Rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong … And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.
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If in a discussion of many matters ... we are not able to give perfectly exact and self-consistent accounts, do not be surprised: rather we would be content if we provide accounts that are second to none in probability.
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Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.
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The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be.
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I would fain grow old learning many things.
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We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
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According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.
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The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.
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He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed.
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Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided the madness is given us by divine gift.
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One man cannot practice many arts with success.
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It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.
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But if with your mind's eye you regard the absolute great and these many great things in the same way, will not another great appear beyond, by which all these must appear to be great?
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The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives as not to abuse or waste the reputation of your ancestors, knowing that to a man who has any self-respect, nothing is more dishonourable than to be honoured, not for his own sake, but on account of the reputation of his ancestors.
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Where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.
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The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.