Plato Quotes
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The right question is usually more important than the right answer.
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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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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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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.
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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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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
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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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In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.
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He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.
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... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may be, as the surest way to make them behave humanely to each other and the subjects in their charge.
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Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not.
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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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Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.
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Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.
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Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
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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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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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Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.
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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.
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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.
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Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.
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Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.
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Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.