Plato Quotes
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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
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A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
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To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.
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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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They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
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All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.
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A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.
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There is no one who ever acts honestly in the administration of states, nor any helper who will save any one who maintains the cause of the just.
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To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
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Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.
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Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
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Those having torches will pass them on to others.
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We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
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Knowledge is true opinion.
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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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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
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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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Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.
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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.