Plato Quotes
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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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I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.
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When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.
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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
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Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
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Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.
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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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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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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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Putting the shoe on the wrong foot.
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Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.
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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 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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Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.
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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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The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.
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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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A work well begun is half-ended.
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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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No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism.
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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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Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.
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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.