Plato Quotes
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The soul should concentrate itself by itself.
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If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.
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The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.
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A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.
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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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Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
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Neither family, nor privilege, nor wealth, nor anything but Love can light that beacon which a man must steer by when he sets out to live the better life.
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He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
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Integrity is your destiny-it is the light that guides your way.
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The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.
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Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike.
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Love consists in feeling the Sacred One beating inside the loved one.
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The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.
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Ideas are the source of all 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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If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.
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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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It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and ordered movements the appearances concerning the movements of the wandering heavenly bodies could be preserved.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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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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One man cannot practice many arts with success.
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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.