Plato Quotes
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No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism.
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A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers.
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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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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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The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.
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SOCRATES: Perhaps we may be wrong; if so, you in your wisdom should convince us that we are mistaken in preferring justice to injustice. THRASYMACHUS: And how am I to convince you, he said, if you are not already convinced by what I have just said; what more can I do for you? Would you have me put the proof bodily into your souls?
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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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A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.
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By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.
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All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.
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Be kind. Every person you meet is fighting a difficult battle.
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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
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Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses.
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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.
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Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.
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The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.
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I prefer nothing, unless it is true.
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The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
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Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.
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No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.