Plato Quotes
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Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.
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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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The god is the beautiful.
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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
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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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You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action - that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one.
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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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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
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I would fain grow old learning many things.
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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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The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be.
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A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
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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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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 flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.
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Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.
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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
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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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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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One man cannot practice many arts with success.
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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.