Plato Quotes
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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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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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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Geometry existed before creation.
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I prefer nothing, unless it is true.
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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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To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible.
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The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
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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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Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
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Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.
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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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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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This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
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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 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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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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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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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.