Plato Quotes
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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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They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
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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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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
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Kindness which is bestowed on the good is never lost.
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Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other? If you weigh pleasures against pleasures, you of course take the more and greater; or if you weigh pains against pains, then you choose that course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by the near or the near by the distant; and you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful.
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It is impossible to conceive of many without one.
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Knowledge is true opinion.
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We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past and there surely will be others in the future, caused by the wickedness of captains and crews alike. For these are guilty men, whose sin is supreme ignorance of what matters most.
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To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.
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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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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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To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
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Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.
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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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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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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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Adultery is the injury of nature.
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Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.
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We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
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Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.
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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.