Plato Quotes
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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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To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
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A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.
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Adultery is the injury of nature.
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The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.
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To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.
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He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.
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Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other? If you weigh pleasures against pleasures, you of course take the more and greater; or if you weigh pains against pains, then you choose that course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by the near or the near by the distant; and you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful.
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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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A work well begun is half-ended.
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Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.
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Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.
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Putting the shoe on the wrong foot.
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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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And a democracy, I suppose, comes into being when the poor, winning the victory, put to death some of the other party, drive out others, and grant the rest of the citizens an equal share in both citizenship and offices.
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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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Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.
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It is impossible to conceive of many without one.
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Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.
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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
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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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The right question is usually more important than the right answer.
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By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.
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If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection.