Plato Quotes
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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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Ideas are the source of all things.
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We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in the idle fancy that we already know -- or that it is of no use seeking to know what we do not know.
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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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It is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.
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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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All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.
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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
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The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be.
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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 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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The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth.
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When the music changes, the walls of the city shake.
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One man cannot practice many arts with success.
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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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A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.
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To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.
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More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.
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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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I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.
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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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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.