Plato Quotes
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We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
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And a democracy, I suppose, comes into being when the poor, winning the victory, put to death some of the other party, drive out others, and grant the rest of the citizens an equal share in both citizenship and offices.
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Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.
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Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.
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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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In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.
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ἐπ᾽ εὐτυχίᾳ τῇ μεγίστῃ παρὰ θεῶν ἡ τοιαύτη μανία sc. ὁ ἔρως δίδοται
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Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
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It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.
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I prefer nothing, unless it is true.
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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
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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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Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.
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It is impossible to conceive of many without one.
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All soul is immortal. For that which is always in movement is immortal; that which moves something else, and is moved by something else, in ceasing from movement ceases from living. So only that which moves itself, because it does not abandon itself, never stops moving. But it is also source and first principle of movement for the other things which move.
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τὸν μὲν οὖν ποιητὴν καὶ πατέρα τοῦδε τοῦ παντὸς εὑρεῖν τε ἔργον καὶ εὑρόντα εἰς πάντας ἀδύνατον λέγειν
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He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than any other part of him, must have thoughts immortal and divine. If he attain truth, and in so far as human nature is capable of sharing in immortality, he must altogether be immortal.
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For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.
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Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.
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A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.
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Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.