Plato Quotes
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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
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Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.
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We are too feeble and sluggish to make our way out to the upper limit of the air. If someone could reach the summit, or put on wings and fly aloft, when he put up his head he would see the world above, just as fishes see our world when they put up their heads out of the sea; and if his nature were able to bear the sight, he would recognize that that is the true heaven.
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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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Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
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The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind and the body are one and should not be treated separately!
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This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
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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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By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.
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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
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He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.
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When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.
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A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.
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We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?
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No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism.
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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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As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.
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All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.
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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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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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Be kind. Every person you meet is fighting a difficult battle.
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Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.