Plato Quotes
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Geometry existed before creation.
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To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible.
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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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The man who hath music in his soul will be most in love with the loveliest.
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Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.
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The orators - and the despots - have the least power in their cities … since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.
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If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.
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And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.
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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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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
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Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function correctly.
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Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.
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The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.
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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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This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
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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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May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.
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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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My love, Alcibiades, which I hardly like to confess, would long ago have passed away, as I flatter myself, if I saw you loving your good things, or thinking that you ought to pass life in the enjoyment of them.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality must survey.
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Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.
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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.