Plato Quotes
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To a good man nothing that happens is evil.
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One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all their splendor many fair fruits of discourse and meditation in a plenteous crop of philosophy.
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And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.
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Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.
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Love is a grave mental illness.
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Love is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that which he is or has. And love is of the beautiful, and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires the good.
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The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of indulgence is the shooting of a fresh bolt.
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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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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
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The wisdom of men is worth little or nothing.
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Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
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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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Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.
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Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?
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The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.
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Courage is knowing what to fear.
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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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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.
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Through obedience learn to command.
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He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
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[The Cretans have] more wit than words.
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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...that in our state one man was to do one job, and the job he was naturally most suited for .. And further, we have often heard and often said that justice consists of minding your own business and not interfering with other people.
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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.