Plato Quotes
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Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
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Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia.This vast power, gathered into one, endeavored to subdue at a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits, and then, Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength, among all mankind.
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Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul; and we must take care, my friend, that the Sophist does not deceive us when he praises what he sells, like the dealers wholesale or retail who sell the food of the body; for they praise indiscriminately all their goods, without knowing what are really beneficial or hurtful.
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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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If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.
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Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom.
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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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The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking up and round the prospect wide, When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried.
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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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There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.
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No one can escape his destiny.
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Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.
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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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The man who hath music in his soul will be most in love with the loveliest.
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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.