Plato Quotes
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Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.
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If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.
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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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Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
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Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.
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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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Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.
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We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
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He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
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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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It is impossible to conceive of many without one.
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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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In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.
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Knowledge is true opinion.
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Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.
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Those having torches will pass them on to others.
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And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his hand from the shedding of tribal blood, but by the customary unjust accusations brings a citizen into court and assassinates him, blotting out a human life, and with unhallowed tongue and lips that have tasted kindred blood, banishes and slays and hints at the abolition of debts and the partition of lands.
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Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
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Adultery is the injury of nature.
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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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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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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.