Plato Quotes
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If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.
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If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul - the result is bound to be a complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always breeds.
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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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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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Integrity is your destiny-it is the light that guides your way.
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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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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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By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.
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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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Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love - all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce.
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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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Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.
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I prefer nothing, unless it is true.
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Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.
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Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger.
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It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and ordered movements the appearances concerning the movements of the wandering heavenly bodies could be preserved.
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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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As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.
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To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
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We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?
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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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When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.
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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.