Plato Quotes
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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
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For our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.
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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war.
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Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
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Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.
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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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To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible.
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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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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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If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.
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Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.
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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.
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I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
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To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.
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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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A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.
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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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Knowledge is true opinion.
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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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Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.
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Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.